The national monetary policy has undergone a transformative process of evolution over the past decade, and has in recent years been compelled to accommodate both exogenous and domestic shocks of considerable scale. Prior to 2003, the monetary policy decisions of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) were carried out with two straightforward policy goals...
To what extent has the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) Agreement affected the country’s exports?
Over the past two years, a state of transition has become a more or less permanent feature of Egypt’s political scene. After 18 months, the 2011 uprising that led to the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak resulted in the election of a new president, Mohammed Morsi of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), and a new constitution for the country...
The usefulness of remittances to the Egyptian economy is something that has been noted by successive governments since the beginning of the nation’s history as a modern republic. During the 1960s, President Gamal Abdel Nasser famously looked to the Egyptian diaspora for valuable foreign currency, appealing to the national pride of Egyptians working...
Egypt is the largest country in the region, with more than 60% of its population under the age of 30. It was the needs and aspirations of those young men and women that ignited the January 25 and June 30 events. Their need for jobs, freedom of expression, political participation, transparency, social justice and a brighter outlook solidified their resolve to bring about...
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