Egyptian labor market is moving from a period of high overall unemployment to one where unemployment is increasingly concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited.

Many developing countries are in transition from a state-dominated to a more market-oriented economy.

In response to slow growth in the agricultural sector and as part of a general shift towards a more market-oriented economy, the Government of Egypt started liberalizing the agricultural sector in 1987.

This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate the short-run effects of alternative food- subsidy scenarios. Savings from reduced subsidy spending are used to reduce direct taxes uniformly for all household types.

Poverty profiles are a useful way of summarizing information on the levels of poverty and the characteristics of the poor in a society.

Egypt has a large food subsidy program that has created a relatively effective social safety net, but it has also drained budgetary resources and proved to be poorly targeted toward the poor.

The questionnaire was administered to 800 geographically weighted, randomly selected wheat producing households located in 80 districts during the third quarter of 1998.

The trend in real agricultural wages in Egypt is described well by an inverted U-shaped curve with a peak around 1985.

This paper presents a profile of poverty in Egypt for 1997.

In Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models, it is typically assumed that agricultural resources are smoothly substitutable in neoclassical functions, with flexible prices generating market equilibrium in a setting with full resource employment