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Working Paper- Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

2015 Aysit Tansel Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Halil Ibrahim Keskin Paper Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

December 01, 2015 03:44 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/is-there-an-informal-employment-wage-penalty-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate...

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Food Needs Drive Cairo Residents to the Rooftops

2015 Economy Egypt Louise Sarant Middle East Institute Paper

November 30, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Louise Sarant Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/food-needs-drive-cairo-residents-rooftops On the rooftop of a three-story brick building tucked inside a dusty alley of ‘Izbat al-Nasr, a poor and informal neighborhood southeast of Cairo, Leila Hussein crouches, tending to the basil and rocket she grows. The incessant cackling of geese...

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Did Egypt’s Parliamentary Election just trump citizens’ rights?

2015 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Paper Ragab Saad

November 20, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17642&lang=en Introduction: Since the Muslim Brotherhood rule was toppled in July 2013, the regime of President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has strived to consolidate his one-man rule; he painted the political opposition and civil society as traitors and foreign agents and exploited the...

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Egypt’s Military Business: The Need for Change

2015 Economy Middle East Institute Military Affairs Paper Zeinab Abul-Magd

November 19, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Zeinab Abul-Magd Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egypt%E2%80%99s-Military-business-need-change In today’s Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that are in almost every sector and produce an extremely wide area of services and goods...

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Egypt’s democratic window-dressing: Procedural elections and paltry voter participation indicate a non-pluralistic transformation

2015 Democracy and Politics Finnish Institute Of International Affairs Paper Wolfgang Mühlberger

November 18, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: Finnish Institute Of International Affairs (Fiia) Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: https://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/egypts-democratic-window-dressing The first round of parliamentary elections in October turned out to be symptomatic of a derailed democratic transition in Egypt. Mainly endorsing the return of authoritarian governance structures, they epitomize the...

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Egypt Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Terrorism

2015 Egypt Gregory Aftandilian Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

November 16, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Gregory Aftandilian Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-needs-a-comprehensive-approach-to-terrorism/ Egypt faces a serious threat from terrorist groups, not only in the Sinai Peninsula but also in other parts of the country. Unfortunately, the government’s counter-terrorism campaign over the past several years has not...

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Egypt’s Rising Security Threat

2015 Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

November 15, 2015 05:55 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/egypts-rising-Security-threat/ Overview: Egypt’s War on Terror has become a defining feature of Abdel-Fattah El Sisi’s presidency, and the provision of security a top priority. This is especially the case because of the sensitivity of the current period of political and...

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Metrojet Incident Spotlights Egypt’s Security Struggles

2015 Chatham House Jane Kinninmont Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

November 09, 2015 05:55 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Jane Kinninmont Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/metrojet-incident-spotlights-egypt-s-Security-struggles The suspicion that a bomb caused a Russian passenger plane to crash over Sinai casts an international spotlight on the security problems that Egyptians have already been facing – and the limitations of the highly militarized state’s...

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Egypt: Into the Unknown

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Human Rights Paper Steven A. Cook

November 09, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-unknown The Egyptian state is weak. The country’s leaders are in a state of either panic or perpetual confusion. No one is in control. As in the darkest, most contested days of former President Mohammed Morsi’s tenure, Egypt’s failure once again seems plausible. Despite

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Forced Disappearances Spike in Egypt

2015 Egypt Human Rights May El-Sadany Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

November 09, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/forced-disappearances-spike-in-egypt-2/ On January 13, 2014, Ashraf Shahata, originally trained as a lawyer, went to the private school that he had helped establish in Kerdasa, Giza. He parked his car, went inside to meet one of his partners, and was last seen walking out...

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THE CAUSAL CHAIN OF MARKET BASED REFORM IN EGYPTIAN VOICE TELECOMMUNICATION

2015 Amirah El-Haddad Economy Egypt German Development Institute Paper

November 05, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: German Development Institute Author(s): Amirah El-Haddad Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/the-causal-chain-of-market-based-reform-in-egyptian-voice-telecommunication/ Snapshot: Utility reform swept the developing world in the 1980s and 1990s. This case study of the Egyptian telecoms sector shows that regulatory reform and liberalization have created...

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Rethinking the U.S.-Egypt relationship: How repression is undermining Egyptian stability and what the United States can do

2015 Egypt Foreign Relations Paper Shadi Hamid The Brookings Institution

November 03, 2015 03:39 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Shadi Hamid Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/rethinking-the-u-s-egypt-relationship-how-repression-is-undermining-egyptian-stability-and-what-the-united-states-can-do/ Editor’s Note: Shadi Hamid testifies for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on how repression in Egypt is undermining the country’s stability and what the United...

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