Egypt’s Sustainable Development Startegy announced in the March 2015 Egypt Economic Development Conference envisions to increase the contribution of services to GDP from 50 percent to the world average. This requires a paradigm shift in the role of the state from being a service provider to an efficient regulator as well as changes in a […]
This year’s workshop covered issues related to various perspectives regarding the economic reform agenda in Egypt; nature of relationship between economic development and political reform; credit shortage to the private sector and proposed solutions; the media’s role in the next phase of economic reform; the Human Development Report; and finally, performance indicators of the Egyptian […]
Background:Despite the general consensus on the poor quality of education in Egypt, there is no public discourse on the roots of the problem. In addition, the poor quality of most of the state education system, and the widespread reliance on private tutoring to supplement it, also contribute to Egypt’s high level of economic inequality, raising […]