This issue of Economic Lens examines the importance of identifying priorities for industrial investment in Egypt by reassessing the list of 152 investment opportunities in light of more recent data and incorporating the export dimension to identify products that can meet domestic demand while offering potential for expansion into foreign markets.
This issue of Economic Lens explores partnership opportunities between Egypt and African countries, and ways to strengthen economic and investment cooperation in a manner that serves mutual interests and supports regional integration.
Overview: A deep exploration of the opportunities and risks a global digital economy poses for refugees. Digital Exiles opens a rare window into the world of refugees trying to survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalized and technological world of work. Often excluded from local employment and struggling to make ends meet, refugees are increasingly […]
Overview: Why do some countries maintain economic stability and investor confidence, while others experience credibility crises? This book examines how political decisions, institutional integrity, and public trust shape economic policy. The authors highlight the consequences of populist governments, which often undermine economic efficiency and democratic stability. The book analyses how populist governments affect a country’s […]
Abstract: Traditional measures of airline service quality provide useful indicators of performance, but they offer limited insight into why passengers are dissatisfied. This study uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to analyze unstructured passenger reviews and identify the specific service problems underlying changes in perceived service quality. We analyze 16,622 TripAdvisor reviews of two anonymized […]
This issue of Economic Lens examines cyber security and its importance to the economy, highlighting the current cyber security risk landscape in the Middle East and Egypt .
Overview: In Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely […]
This report presents the results of a periodic evaluation carried out by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) of a sample of 120 private sector firms covering various sectors and sizes, reflecting the opinion of the business community regarding developments in a set of variables, specifically: production, domestic sales and exports, commodity inventory, level […]