Related Publications: Middle East and North Africa

Despite achieving a significant cost reduction over the past two decades, the absolute cost of food subsidies in Egypt is still high relative to the benefits received by the poor.

Drought is a recurrent and often devastating threat to the welfare of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where three-quarters of the arable land has less than 400 mm of annual rainfall, and the natural grazings, which support a m

Addressing longer-term issues of economic development in Egypt, the paper employs a dynamically recursive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the outcomes associated with two types of development approaches over the period 1998-20

In this paper, the impact of alternative development strategies on growth and poverty is assessed in an economywide framework, using Egypt as a case study.

Since the transition to democracy, South African public works programs are to involve community participation, and be targeted to the poor and women.

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

Egypt's food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government's long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability.