On 14 May, World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Robert Azevêdo announced that he would step down on 31 August, cutting short his second term in office by exactly one year. The organisation then opened the door for respective governments (...)
It is expected that trade on the African continent will commence within the rules of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 1 July unless otherwise decided amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic a year after its operational phase was (...)
Throughout the history of the global economy, crises have played a pivotal role in encouraging the international community to look for mechanisms to adjust it and to develop the framework within which it functions. The establishment of the World (...)
Galal Amin is an Egyptian economist and thinker who has written extensively on economic and social affairs and works as a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo (AUC). In this book, Amin sheds light on the Egyptian economy over (...)
Development has been and will remain the main goal of successive governments of Egypt. Since the first five-year plan (1960-1965) until now, governments adopted a gamut of policies that had positive effects in some respects, and also entailed (...)
At this critical stage of Egypt's history we are in a pressing need to pave the ground for a prosperous, inclusive, equitable, sustained period of economic growth. Recently the government stated it seeks to achieve economic growth of 3.5 per cent. (...)
Sayed Attia*, inspired by the Washington Consensus, outlines an agenda for achieving sustainable growth
Successive Egyptian governments have adopted a gamut of reforms to spur economic growth and integrate Egypt into the global economy. As a result, (...)
Sayed Attia* sheds light on the role played by USAID in the development process in Egypt
Egyptian-American relations are currently undergoing a process of reshaping after some lean years under the previous US administration. One of the hot issues (...)
Sayed Moawad Attia* discusses how Egypt could manage the implications of the global financial crisis
It is important that we face the fact that the financial crisis will no doubt bring negative consequences on the growth rate, employment, inflows of (...)
The goal of poverty reduction should be a stable, loyal and productive society, writes Sayed Attia*
The National Democratic Party (NDP) held its fifth conference through 1-3 November 2008 putting the issue of poverty as a priority on its agenda, (...)
Education is key to the health and well being of the nation, writes Sayed Attia*
The issue of development has been and will remain the main goal of the government of Egypt since the early 1960s through the first national plan (1960-1965) until now. (...)