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Central to the Transformation Agenda is an effective fiscal policy that prioritises investment in much-needed infrastructure and social development in health and education over wasteful recurrent spending. By improving its revenue collection and tightening capital budget disbursement, the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) aims to curb its domestic...

Proper metrics are crucial to a full understanding of the economy. By most measures economic data on Nigeria is vague at best, with GDP estimated at between $247bn and $555bn in 2012, according to the UN, and a more commonly used $259.8bn, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), depending on whether one includes Nigeria’s significant...

Despite its occasionally turbulent political history, Nigeria has long been both a regional and international diplomatic force. The country is a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional diplomatic and economic bloc of 15 member states with roughly 300m people. It is also a party to a raft of international...

In the wake of the revolution, one of the biggest issues facing the real estate business in Egypt is the question of access to, and ownership of, land. The legal background surrounding title to land can be unclear, partly due to the country’s history, which has seen Ottoman legislation overlaid with European legal codes, and a tradition in which...

Egypt’s wind resources are some of the most comprehensively studied in the region. The coastline of the Gulf of Suez in particular was investigated in great detail between 1996 and 2003 in a joint effort by the Danish RISO laboratories and the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA), the result of which was the Wind Atlas for the Gulf of Suez West...

In the following, we aim to shed some light on the more relevant laws applicable in Egypt. In this respect, we shall focus on the corporate, labour, investment, and property laws of the country.