Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-european-arms-sales-to-egypt/ Although the United States continues to be its chief provider, Egypt has diversified its weapons supply, purchasing more arms from Europe and Russia since 2014 than ever before. Europe and Russia have welcomed sales to Egypt (and the rest...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Zeinab Abul-Magd Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/71198 This Ramadan, the Egyptian army is charitably distributing millions of food boxes in poor urban and rural areas across the country. Conscripted soldiers from various military branches pack food items including sugar, rice, beans, pasta, cooking oil, tomato paste, and tea in boxes that...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamad Adam Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/regional-agreements-and-authoritarian-measures-in-egypt/ Last Monday, a picture was taken in Saudi Arabia of a glowing globe controlled by the six hands of the King Salman of Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump of the United States, and President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi of...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20004&lang=en We the undersigned civil society organizations strongly condemn the ratification of a new law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt, issued by President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi on Wednesday, May 24. The law ushers in unprecedented levels of repression...
Learn MoreSource: The Egyptian Center For Economic Studies Author(s): Omneia Helmy, Chahir Zaki, Aliaa Abdallah Original Link: http://www.eces.org.eg/Publication.aspx?Id=625&Type=10 Abstract: This paper examines cyclical characteristics of remittances and explores their counterbalancing and consumption-smoothing potential. First, it uses quarterly data to better reflect the shortterm dynamics of...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mélika Ben Salem, Chahir Zaki Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/revisiting-the-impact-of-trade-openness-on-informal-and-irregular-employment-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper examines the impact of trade openness on job quality through the evolution of the shares of informal and irregular employment in total employment. In fact, Egypt has...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/70146 The massacre on May 26 of Coptic Christians in Minya by Islamic State-affiliated gunmen was the fourth such incident in six months, following several attacks on churches in Cairo, Alexandria, and Tanta. Instead of addressing glaring security deficits—and protecting Copts, who have...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Amirah El-Haddad, Jeremy Hodge, Nizar Manek Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-political-economy-of-a-sector-in-crisis-industrial-policy-and-political-connections-in-the-egyptian-automotive-industry/ Abstract: The Egyptian automotive industry developed under the country’s policy of import substitution industrialization (ISI). It mainly...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/70103 Over the past month, debate in Egypt has centered around a legislative initiative designed to reorganize the way the country’s religious establishment is governed. At first glance, the initiative appeared designed to place the top leadership of Al-Azhar, the sprawling...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/a-monetary-theory-of-everything-printing-new-money-and-egypts-economic-ills/ Last week, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) unexpectedly decided to raise interest rates by two percentage points to mitigate spiraling inflation. While academic economists and observers of financial...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mohamed Zaky Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/egypt-must-strengthen-budget-institutions-to-curb-mounting-budget-deficit/ Abstract: • Since the January 2011 popular revolution, the budget deficit in Egypt has worsened. • A new strategy announced by the government to contain the budget deficit and control public debt includes many measures...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/a-fragile-egypt-in-a-changing-world-six-years-after-the-revolution/ Amid turmoil in the Middle East and changes in world leadership, much has been made of Egypt’s stability, but already in 2017 we have seen how much of this is illusory, with terrorism, sectarianism, and...
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