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This report is the fifth of a series of Economic Reviews on Egypt by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Country Office in Egypt. It covers Egypt’s economic performance up to September 2013 ─ unless otherwise noted ─ based on data which was available at the time of...Read More

The objective of this study, requested by the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development, is to assist the government of Egypt in: formulating a coherent national affordable housing strategy which puts in place an effective institutional and regulatory...Read More

The objective of this report is to help the government with the design of the second generation of financial reforms aimed at increasing the role of the private sector in financial services provision, particularly to SMEs and households, while strengthening risk...Read More

This paper explains the decrease based on credit supply and demand considerations by 1) presenting stylized facts regarding the evolution of the banks’ sources and fund use in 2005 to 2011, noting two different cycles of external capital flows, and 2) estimating...Read More

The main findings of this paper show that legal form, economic activity, labor, capital, and sales turnover have a significant effect on having banking facilities. In addition, we find that the smaller the firm, the higher the probability of having banking problems. We...Read More

This document is a product of a lengthy and informed consultative process that involved representatives of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in several governorates, local and international experts, representatives of SME development organizations and...Read More

Doing Business in Egypt 2014 measures business regulations and their enforcement in 15 Egyptian locations –Alexandria, Assuit, Aswan, Cairo, Damietta, Fayoum, Giza, Ismailia, Kharga, Mansoura, Port Said, Sohag, Suez, Tanta, and Zagazig– and 5 ports –Alexandria,...Read More

This study tests the hypothesis that Egypt’s experience with FDI (from the initiation of liberalized policies since 1974) does not show that FDI exerts a positive influence on employment. The study argues that this is because FDI is not an aggregate phenomenon, rather...Read More

The objective of this note is to provide a preliminary assessment of the impact of the crisis on Egypt and of the policy response to it.  It is based on three technical background documents.  The first one quantifies the overall impact using sector and long term growth...Read More

This paper estimates a small open economy model for Egypt to analyze inflation, output dynamics and monetary policy during 2005–2010. The interest rate channel is found to be relatively weak in Egypt, complicating the use of interest rates as the immediate target of...Read More