Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed Abdel Salam Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64852 Hisham Geneina, the former head of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), Egypt’s main oversight body, is still facing the repercussions of the controversial statement he made at the end of 2015 that corruption had cost Egypt nearly 600 billion Egyptian pounds ($76 billion). Even...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Sahar Aziz Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64840 Egypt’s ongoing expansion of military jurisdiction under the pretext of economic development and public safety is yet another indicator that its revolution was stillborn. Although the military has long been a key political player, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime has promoted the...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Adel Abdel Ghafar Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/10/11/egyptian-economic-policy-see-no-evil-hear-no-evil/ The Egyptian government appears to be on the verge of further devaluing the pound. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi met with the governor of the country’s central bank Amer last week to give political cover to the move...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/10/07/how-social-media-undermined-egypt-s-democratic-transition-pub-64830 Egypt’s 2011 uprising has become synonymous with the successful use of social media to overthrow an entrenched authoritarian regime. Popular and academic literature hold it up as the paradigm of...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Omer Karasapan Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/10/04/who-are-the-5-million-refugees-and-immigrants-in-egypt/ For some time now, Egyptian officials at the highest level have been pointedly underlining a growing refugee and migrant challenge. At the G-20 meeting in September 2016, President Sisi stated that Egypt was...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/sink-or-swim-egypts-anticipated-currency-float/ Tarek Amer, the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), announced in July that Egypt’s longstanding policy of defending the Egyptian pound (LE) against devaluation had been a “grave error.” The strategy had slowly...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Fatma El-Hamidi Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/energy-subsidy-reform-in-egypt-the-gender-energy-poverty-nexus/ Abstract: The purpose of this study is to quantify the effects of the current energy reform policy on household expenditures along gender and regional lines. Gender analysis helps to identify constraints such as transportation...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/trade-between-egypt-sudan-and-ethiopia-prospects-and-challenges-for-trilateral-trade-integration/ Abstract: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia possess potential natural and human resources, which can entail successful trade integration between the three countries. This paper investigates...
Learn MoreSource: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): American University Cairo Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/national_case_study/egypt_national_case_study/(language)/eng-US Overview: This report presents and compiles all the ethnographic fieldwork data that the AUC Forum research team has conducted for the SAHWA project. The...
Learn MoreSource: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/09/28/we-are-tombs/abuses-egypts-scorpion-prison Summary: “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in 2012 Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military, led by...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Hossam Abougabal, Achment Gonim Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/imf-reforms-not-enough-repair-egypt-s-economy Addressing Egypt’s economic woes remains a matter of urgency for the stability of the government and the country as a whole. Egypt’s economic recovery plan, which was spearheaded by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2015...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/09/22/egypt-s-parliament-opens-door-for-more-repression-pub-64666 Recently, Egypt’s parliament has approved — without revision — almost all of the 342 presidential-decree laws issued by then-Interim President Adly Mansour and by President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Despite the clear autocratic nature...
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