Over the past decade, the Egyptian economy has undergone significant negative structural shifts, skewing job creation towards lower productivity sectors. COVID[1]19 has further revealed Egypt’s labor market bottlenecks, vulnerability, and segmentation. This paper presents a holistic diagnosis of the labor market dynamics in Egypt, as well as at the sectoral level, in the crucial decade […]
Abstract: This study discusses factors negatively affecting available water sources, particularly the Nile. Egypt’s annual share of the Nile fresh water amounts to 55.5 billion cubic meters (BCM), representing only 72 percent of water availability. The agriculture sector consumes 85 percent of this share due to flood irrigation, wasting about 50 percent of total irrigation […]
This working paper discussesthe importance and current status of Egypt’s readymade garments and home textiles industry. It sheds light on the main challenges facing this industry compared to selected competitive countries. Finally, it concludes by offering a set of proposed measures that are based on the constraints facing the industry and in light of international […]