Overview:We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. As well as financial crises, issues around climate change, automation, growing inequality and polarization are all rooted in the economy, yet standard economic predictions fail us.Using […]
Our Views The Egyptian government’s work program for the period from 2024/2025 to 2026/2027 was announced days following the formation of the new cabinet, which indicates that its directions are largely pre-determined. Notably, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly continues as Prime Minister. This program comes a few months after the announcement of the broad outlines of 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
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:An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for […]
Abstract:It took more than a decade for developed countries to start fulfilling the 100 billion US dollars climate finance pledge from the Copenhagen COP15 and tensed discussions prevailed for the creation of the loss and damage fund acknowledged at the COP28. Hence, global commitments remain far from matching the actual needs of developing countries, both […]
Overview: When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should […]
Our Views The World Economic Forum has recently launched the eighteenth edition of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, which has been issued annually since 2006. The report provides a tool for investigating the gender gap in a number of economic, political, health, and educational fields through a composite indicator of this gap globally. The […]
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 […]