Manufacturing plays a significant role as a locomotive of economic development in Egypt, due to its characteristics and the associated value-added chains. It also plays a role in job creation, reduction of unemployment and securing jobs for the coming generations. Since international experiences offer lessons that we can benefit from, this working paper explores the […]
Overview* At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice. Within that context, Dr. McGann launched this book to examine the future of think tanks and policy advice around the world with a series of authoritative […]
Overview* The sweeping story of how the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution applied their new ideas to people, money, and markets—and along the way, invented modern finance.Money for Nothing chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided. It’s about how the Scientific Revolution intertwined with […]
Overview* The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life prospects. And yet everywhere, the social contract is failing.How should society pool risks, share resources and balance individual with collective responsibility? What We Owe Each Other offers new […]
Overview* We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance–and they are profoundly deflationary.Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology […]
Overview* Stephanie Kelton’s brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find […]
Egypt’s Economic Profile and Statistics is an annual booklet containing summary data and information about various aspects of the Egyptian economy. Designed in a graphical and tabular format, this publication is intended mainly for the business community and investors seeking reliable information about the main developments in the Egyptian economy. This edition covers fiscal year […]
Overview* Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the ‘moonshot’ programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for […]
This paper employs a mixed data sampling approach to analyse the potential impacts of daily exchange rate on monthly inflation rate. Our results indicate that the response of CPI inflation to changes in the NEER is asymmetric. While exchange rate depreciation results in a persistent increase in the inflation rate, the inflation reducing effect of […]
Overview* Global Megatrends:• Demographic Transitions• Fast Urbanization• Climate Change• Shifts in The Global Economy• Market Volatility and Commodity Cycles• Technological Changes• Fragility and Violence• Controversy regarding Geopolitics & Globalization• Pandemics and Communicable & Non-Communicable Diseases