This webinar discussed the findings of an ECES study on Egypt’s ICT value chain. The study aims to determine whether Egypt’s ICT sector is following a lower or a higher growth path, to what extent it is using its full potential, the extent to which it is able to respond quickly to the current technological […]
Egypt hosted the United Nations summit on climate change (COP27) in November in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. COP27 attempting to push countries to make good on their pledges to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate “non-adversarial” talks on compensation to developing countries for global warming impacts and allow climate activists to […]
Organized in collaboration with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), this hybrid event discussed the findings of an ECES study on the institutional, structural, and legislative dimensions of the IDA, shedding light on the experiences of other countries in the field of industrial development.
In this hybrid event, we hosted Ragui Assaad to discuss his most recent book carrying the same title. He argued that a favorable, but temporary, demographic situation has resulted in reduced labor supply pressures on the Egyptian labor market in the past decade, leading to falling unemployment rates. However, the drop in unemployment is attributed […]
The publishing industry suffers from several challenges related to counterfeiting and piracy, which increased sharply after the evolving of COVID-19, causing massive losses to the content industry in many countries. ECES organized this webinar in continuation of a previous virtual event held in March under a collaboration agreement with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). […]
Detailed analysis of Q3 revealed several important findings. Job growth is slowing severely nationwide, and jobs are becoming highly concentrated. Cairo alone accounts for more than two-thirds of available jobs in Egypt. Some 90 percent of jobs are concentrated in only 6 governorates: Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Qalyubia, Sharkia, and Gharbia.
A regional economic research network, the Economic Research Forum (ERF) holds a highly visible conference each year that provides a platform for approximately 250 international and regional economists (and professionals in related disciplines) to discuss the most pressing development challenges facing the region.The theme of this year’s was “Revisiting Macroeconomic Management in Times of Crisis […]
Credit rating agencies play a decisive role in determining the borrowing costs in global financial markets through the standardized ratings they produce. These agencies, despite their announced methodologies, prefer to keep their empirical evaluation receipt stealthy so that they are not obliged to justify their discretionary conduct of sovereign ratings. This webinar aimed to discuss […]
ECES organized this two-day webinar in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Participants included a select group of WIPO international experts as well as representatives of creative industries in Egypt. The discussions covered global and regional intellectual property rights, as well as Egypt’s position on the issue, focusing on creative industries, and stressing […]
This webinar aimed to discuss findings of an ECES study on civil society. The study discussed the main weaknesses of NGOs and their governing institutional, legislative and executive frameworks. It also attempted to estimate their economic contribution, recommending measures to advance the civil society in Egypt and deepen its role. Minister of Social Solidarity, Nevin […]