Doha Abdelhamid* calls for much needed public accountability in national budgeting
The state's credibility is now at stake after the series of staggering public announcements on the minimum wage level, taxation, subsidisation and pensions. All such (...)
Ahead of the 2010 G20 Seoul summit, Doha Abdelhamid* draws attention to the missing development agenda
The global financial crisis which first erupted in the United States financial markets has exposed the systemic fragility, weak regulation and (...)
Whatever the size of the "social allowance" pay raise promised by President Mubarak earlier this month, much more action is needed, argues Doha Abdelhamid*
Nowadays, all Egyptian households are speaking of this year's expected pay raise that the (...)
Egypt's women remain locked out of key political and economic roles. This can and should change, writes Doha Abdelhamid*
Despite an arsenal of constitutional articles and laws affording equal rights to females and males, to date progress on (...)
In the last of a three-part series examining fiscal reforms since the 1970s, Doha Abdelhamid* discusses the steps necessary for continued success
The second part of this series closed with the government achieving positive results despite massive (...)
In the second of three instalments, Doha Abdelhamid sees some hope in the undertaking of the first wave of fiscal reforms
Towards the latter part of the 1980s, Egyptian authorities were faced with the unenviable convergence of major economic and (...)
In the last instalment of a series of articles on the rationale behind Egypt's investment and financial market regulation, Doha Abdelhamid and Ziad Bahaaeldin focus on the much-heralded law against money laundering
In the third and final part of (...)