Tackling poverty in Egypt is a challenging task, since poverty is highly complex and dynamic and cuts across different disciplines. Dealing with such real-world problems requires a comprehensive awareness of their distinctive characteristics, in order to avoid falling into the trap of...

Aus der Kooperation der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung mit dem israelischen Marco Center for Political Economics ist ein "Länderbericht Ägypten" hervorgegangen. Er befasst sich mit Armut und Einkommensverteilung, Bildung und Arbeitsmarkt, Emigration, den Arbeitsbeziehungen und Handelsabkommen.

This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that...

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the optimization analysis: the identification of the...

This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent and fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a...

The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...