Overview: This book disseminates the resource potentials and their utilization possibilities with the help of various stakeholders such as researchers, technocrats, political actors, NGOs, and private sector integrating different perspectives enhancing knowledge exchange between the various actors. Africa in its rapid development pathway should try to utilize the untapped potentials from conventional and non-conventional resources. […]
This issue discusses internal migration in Egypt, and the recent shifts it has undergone based on the latest available data. It also seeks to analyze emerging trends in population movements within the country and to understand the underlying economic and social drivers behind them.
Overview: Ambition and Adjustment reveals how responses to this human capital problem from the political left and right converged in unlikely ways to block Africa’s postcolonial progress. Focusing on nation-building projects in Zambia and Tanzania, Priya Lal recounts how the first generations of Africa’s professional class faced pressures on all sides–from foreign planners prioritizing economic […]
This issue discusses recent global economic developments and their implications for the inflationary pressures, amid renewed inflation risks following a period during which central banks were heading towards interest rate cuts.
Overview: For eight decades, the US dollar has functioned as the world’s reserve currency — the default medium for oil contracts, sovereign debt, and international trade settlement. That dominance was never simply economic. It was enforced by alliance networks, military presence, and the absence of a credible alternative. BRICS, the expanding bloc of Brazil, Russia, […]
This issue of “Economic Lens” seeks to measure the impact of the recent fuel price increase in Egypt on physicians’ consultation fees, as one of the essential services most closely tied to citizens’ daily lives. It also examines how inflationary pressures and rising operating costs have affected the pricing of medical services, and the resulting […]
Overview: How did the labor market stop working for so many in the workforce? Why did wages at the bottom and in the middle of the pay scale fail to keep up with a growing economy that delivered over 70 percent productivity gains and soaring incomes for those at the top? What caused this divergence, […]
Since there was no independent Cost-Benefit Analysis conducted to estimate the impact of the closure on economic activity, this issue attempts to estimate the impact of the policy on the Egyptian economy. To do that we utilized an innovative satellite-dependent methodology to provide an objective assessment of these emergency measures.