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This paper tries to accomplish two tasks. First, provide a retrospective of monetary policy instruments between 1996 and 2005 in an attempt to explain the decision making process. Consequently, a parsimonious empirical estimation is conducted to investigate the...Read More

The Egyptian economy achieved real growth of 7.2% during FY 2007/08, close to its level in 2006/07, but up from the 4.1% achieved just half a decade ago in 2003/04. Real GDP per capita income also increased by 5.2% in 2007/08, compared to just 1.2% half a decade ago....Read More

The persistence growth of Egypt's public domestic debt has raised concerns regarding its impact on economic growth and fears are being express about the debt sustainability. Read More

Published in Global Research, February 18, 2011 Just a week after the Tunisian revolution, at a conference in Beirut, an astute Egyptian social scientist was asked, would the Tunisian contagion spread to Egypt? And his answer was a categorical, ‘it is not likely,...Read More

An article published in Network E-briefs, No. 07/2011, June 2011 Read More

The Egyptian economy is going through a critical period as the country transitions to democracy. While the shift from authoritarianism is certainly welcome, it has inevitably incited instability unknown to Egypt for the past thirty years. The implementation of economic...Read More

This paper offers a road map for future economic development in Egypt post-January 25th Revolution. It argues that success on the political front is what will make it possible for Egypt to make progress on the economic development front. Read More

An article published in Volume 63, Issue 06, November 2011 of Monthly Review Read More

This paper reviews the evolution of monetary policy in Egypt during the last two decades, starting in early 1990s with the lunch of series of agreements with IMF and world bank known as ERSAP, till 2010, the year prior to the rise of what’s called the Arab spring. Read More

In Egypt’s 2011 uprising, political and economic grievances were closely linked in attempts to address complex problems of corruption and injustice. But the cross-class, cross-ideology coalition that united behind the uprising has predictably fragmented, and different...Read More