The current government has adopted an expansive foreign policy in the last two years. While the country’s dealings with the international community are often rooted in the region’s current problems, Cairo is also pursuing an agenda that supports growth at home.
Long central to the cultural, political and economic history of the MENA region, Egypt, its most populous nation, found itself once again at the centre of Middle Eastern affairs when it stood in the vanguard of the political changes sweeping the region in 2011. While the road forward from that point has been rocky, Egypt still has huge...
The past year has been a busy one in the political life of Egypt. In 2015 the country conducted its first parliamentary elections since 2011, the year of the January 25 revolution. The ballot represented an important milestone, as it ushered in the first sitting Parliament in three years and the culmination of the post-revolution transition....
How can the vulnerability of emerging and frontier markets to global shocks be reduced, and what role can the AfDB play?
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