Abstract: This study analyzes how the escalating US-China trade conflict affects Egypt as a bystander country. It examines the trade war’s exacerbation of Egypt’s existing economic weaknesses and explores its impact on various sectors, with growth forecasts for Egypt from 2024 to 2029 under different global trade scenarios. The paper suggests that Egypt can mitigate […]
This week’s issue of “Our Economy and the World” includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Overview: For hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast distances and adapt to new environments has been key to our survival as a species. And yet this deep migratory impulse is being tested as never before. The number of international migrants has increased five decades in a row; […]
Abstract: Technology and knowledge are critical drivers of economic growth and sustainable development, particularly in the Global South, where bridging the gap with developed nations necessitates both economic expansion and environmental responsibility. Traditionally, technology transfer flows from the Global North to the South, facilitated by greater access to capital, finance, and technological capabilities in the […]
This week’s issue of “Our Economy and the World” includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Overview: A timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Second World War, the US dollar has been the global reserve currency, which has ensured American dominance of the world economy. But no longer. More than […]
Our Views The World Economic Forum (WEF) launched this morning the Future of Jobs Report 2024. It is the fifth in a series of reports published by the WEF since 2016, and the second launch for Egypt’s future jobs profile. It assesses the current global labor market landscape and forecasts the transformations expected to occur […]
Overview:Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement. Similar trends have impacted export superpowers like China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Driven by nostalgia for a bygone era, however, many countries have turned to reshoring and “industrial […]
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 […]