Casual wage labor in Egypt is most often a function of poverty. A 1997 survey of 2,500 rural and urban households by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that the poor ...

The fourth paper prepared by Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah, and Enas Ali A. El-Majeed assesses the state of poverty and inequality among the poorest villages of Egypt using a unique survey conducted ...

Egypt, a country of more than 103 million people ... For the nearly third of Egyptians living in poverty, and the millions more in poor conditions, the country's economic woes mean life is ...

Children in Egypt encounter high levels of inequality in terms of their chances of healthy development, based on factors beyond their control. There are substantial differences in the opportunities ...

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Egypt has opened a record-breaking mosque in its new administrative capital city - but has been widely criticised for the costs involved. The government has been building a new city in the desert ...

Egypt has ranked second, following Jordan, for budget transparency across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...

Egypt's economy has been in crisis for years, but as the latest round of International Monetary Fund-backed reforms bites, ...