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The turmoil currently taking place in Egypt has raised many pressing issues whose problems have been dangerously increased after 25 Jan. Revolution especially with the troubles the Egyptian economy is suffering from. Those rising fears have been declared by the Supreme...Read More

It addresses the major taxes applicable to business; how taxable income is determined; sundry other related taxation and business issues; and the country’s personal tax regime. The final section of each country summary sets out  the Double Tax Treaty and Non-Treaty...Read More

This book attempts to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant historical, social, economic, political, and national security aspects of contemporary Egypt. Sources of information included scholarly books, journals, and monographs; official reports and...Read More

Snapshot of the status of more than 170 countries with respect to energy access, action on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and energy consumption. Read More

This analysis explores the technical potential of photovoltaics (PV) or concentrating solar power (CSP) to address energy poverty in Africa through a geographic information system (GIS) screening of solar resource data developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s...Read More

What you need to know about the 1.4 billion people living without electricity — and how you can help light up their future. Read More

This report was commissioned to begin bridging this gap, especially for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and sub-Saharan Africa, where energy access is especially constrained. In addition to compiling statistics from countries on access to electricity and modern...Read More

This report documents the scale of fossil fuel subsidies and sets out a practical agenda for their elimination in the context of the global goal of tackling climate change. It spells out the real costs of fossil fuel subsidies within the top developed- country emitters...Read More

The purpose of this background paper is to inform the forthcoming energy sector strategy by providing arguments for and against the use or change in particular types of subsidy. Despite the length of the paper, it is not designed to give detailed treatments of the...Read More

Proceedings of the 4th Environmental Physics Conference, 10-14 March 2010, Hurghada, Egypt Read More