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Working Paper- The Effect of Mothers’ Employment on Youth Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence From Egypt

2017 Culture, Education and Development Economic Research Forum Economy Maia Sieverding May Gadallah Paper Rania Roushdy Women Affairs Youth

August 01, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Maia Sieverding, Rania Roushdy, May Gadallah Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-effect-of-mothers-employment-on-youth-gender-role-attitudes-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: Cross-nationally, having a working mother during childhood is associated with more egalitarian attitudes among both adult men and women. However, no previous studies...

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Working Paper- How Gender Biased Are Female-Headed Household Transfers in Egypt?

2017 Culture, Education and Development Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Lobna Abdellatif Mohamed Ramadan Paper Sarah Elbakry Women Affairs Youth

August 01, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Sarah Elbakry Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/how-gender-biased-are-female-headed-household-transfers-in-egypt/ Abstract: In this paper, we claim that the policy of targeting female-headed households’ (FHHs) may generate bias against women in male-headed households (MHHs) who may be more...

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Household behaviour in times of political change: Evidence from Egypt

2017 Cesifo Group Culture, Education and Development Egypt Paper Yvonne Giesing

July 30, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Cesifo Group Author(s): Yvonne Giesing Original Link: https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-Ifo_Working_Papers/wp-ifo-2017/12022017237000.html Abstract: Using representative household survey data, we study the short-term microeconomic effects of the Egyptian revolution on household behaviour in terms of education, health expenditure and savings...

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Kafka in Cairo

2017 Chatham House Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Helen Fitzwilliam Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

July 30, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Helen Fitzwilliam Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/kafka-cairo When the regime of Hosni Mubarak fell during the 2011 revolution, many diaspora Egyptians returned home, bringing with them the latest ideas in science, technology and medicine to build the nascent democracy. But when that modern state failed to materialize, they ran for...

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Measuring Success in Egypt’s War on Terror

2017 Allison Mcmanus Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 27, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Allison McManus Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/measuring-success-in-egypts-war-on-terror/ The Egyptian Ministry of Defense posted a grainy video to its YouTube channel on Monday: A vehicle slowly approaches a checkpoint south of Arish. Nearby cars drive away and people scatter as a military tank crushes the vehicle...

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Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss

2017 Ashraf Dawaba Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

July 26, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Ashraf Dawaba Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egyptian-debt-the-road-to-the-abyss/ Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss In its introduction, the study explains that public debt is one of the important issues that have direct impact on the economics of the countries and its people’s standard of living and the future of current and

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Inequality of opportunity in Egypt

2017 Culture, Education and Development Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Economy Egypt Paper The Brookings Institution

July 25, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/07/25/inequality-of-opportunity-in-egypt/ It is rare to read an account of the Arab Spring uprisings without a reference to economic injustice. Indeed, it is natural to believe that economic and social injustice fuel, if not cause, all revolutions. For this...

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Egypt’s Ad Campaign for Investment Law Glosses over Economic Challenges

2017 Economy Judicial Affairs Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 20, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-ad-campaign-for-investment-law-glosses-over-economic-challenges/ A television commercial showed beautiful young people walking out on their daily jobs, launching a homemade jam company, a food truck, or a designer furniture store. A voiceover promised that the...

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Executing Justice in Egypt

2017 Carnegie Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sherif Mohy El Deen

July 20, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Sherif Mohy El Deen Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/71596 On June 7, the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest court, issued a ruling reaffirming the death penalty for six young men from Mansoura who have been in jail since 2014. This is part of a surge in executions over the past few years. Executions increased from 15

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Egyptian Copts Under Attack: The Frailty of a National Unity Discourse

2017 Bård Helge Kårtveit Middle East Institute Minorities Paper

July 13, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Bård Helge Kårtveit Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egyptian-copts-under-attack-frailty-national-unity-discourse On May 26, 2017, 30 Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on a bus headed for St. Samuel’s Monastery near Minya.[1] This attack followed the Palm Sunday bombing of two Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria. In less than six...

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Egypt’s Payroll Is Fine, but Its Revenues Are Too Low

2017 Economy Osama Diab Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 05, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-payroll-is-fine-but-its-revenues-are-too-low/ Throughout June, the Egyptian cabinet and parliament debated a budget for the 2017–18 fiscal year, which began on July 1. The budget has been referred to in Egypt as the “IMF budget” due to the number of restrictions in an...

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Israel’s Empty Embassy in Cairo

2017 Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Institute For National Security Studies

July 03, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-empty-embassy-cairo/ Since the normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, the only time that the Israeli presence in Cairo was cut off completely came in late 2016, when the Israeli ambassador and his staff returned to Israel due to security warnings...

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