Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/05/20/economic-recovery-in-egypt-won-t-guarantee-political-stability-pub-60113 Since Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power in June 2014, his military-backed regime has spared no effort in trying to secure a quick economic recovery after four years of low growth rates, soaring unemployment...
Learn MoreSource: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/morsi-death-sentence An Egyptian court has sentenced Mohammed Morsi and about 100 others, including other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, to death. Carrying out those sentences would be a huge mistake… Read more at original link.
Learn MoreSource: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Zack Gold Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/sinai-tribes-between-the-egyptian-state-and-the-islamic-state/ The jihadist insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is taking an increasing toll on the local population and its tribal society. To confront this challenge, leaders of tribes from across the peninsula met on May...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Hassan Mneimneh Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/reforming-religious-discourse-egypt Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has earned numerous accolades, domestic and international, for his repeated calls for religious discourse away from extremism. Sisi has expressed the conviction that the proclivity to radicalism and conflict is not...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amr El-Shokabi Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/node/20431 The literature on democratic transitions from the last 50 years has emphasized the process of transforming an authoritarian state into a democracy. Much has been written about negotiations between ancien regimes and democratic forces, particularly the bridges that must be made between elements...
Learn MoreSource: International Peace Institute Author(s): Andre Colling Original Link: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/05/sinai-egypt-isis-al-qaeda/ Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is increasingly being affected by high levels of conflict and instability, which has left hundreds of people dead and thousands more wounded since 2011. The latest of these attacks reportedly occurred earlier today, when four...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Yahia Shawkat Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypts-deregulated-property-market-crisis-affordability What Egyptians call the azmit al-iskan—the housing crisis—is exemplified by the 1986 movie, Karakon fi-l-Shari‘a, or Prison in the Street. The film depicts a typical middle class family that, evicted from its condemned home, must resort to...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=14940&lang=en The undersigned organizations utterly reject and condemn the increasingly aggressive actions taken by the Egyptian government and the investigating bodies against civil society, especially rights groups. We believe the goal of these measures is to slowly strangle the...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Rana Hendy Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/Womens-participation-in-the-egyptian-labor-market-1998-2012/ Abstract: This paper examines the reasons for the persistently low participation of women in the Egyptian labor market over time and across the different economic sectors, using the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) 2012. This...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mona Said Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/wages-and-inequality-in-the-egyptian-labor-market-in-an-era-of-financial-crisis-and-revolution/ Abstract: This paper investigates the pattern of wages and wage inequality in Egypt over the period 1988-2012, a time of substantial economic and political changes, including the recent global...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Jackline Wahba, Ragui Assaad Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/flexible-labor-regulations-and-informality-in-egypt/ Abstract: Do flexible labor market regulations reduce informal employment? This paper examines the effects of changes in labor regulations on the incidence of formal employment. Using the case of Egypt, we study the effects...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Hala Abou-Ali, Reham Rizk Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/mses-informality-and-productivity-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of informality on household enterprise performance in terms of productivity and size of output. Furthermore, it pinpoints informality determinants with respect to different types of...
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