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Consumption Inequality And Inflation Differentials Among Different Income Groups In Egypt, Dina Abdallah

Theses and Dissertations

One of the dilemmas about inequality in Egypt is that perception of inequality has always exceeded actual measures of inequality. Egyptians have long called for more equal income distribution while Gini coefficient according to income figures has maintained its same magnitude ranging from 37.8 percent to 36.6 percent in the last decade (World Bank, 2012). One claim to explain this puzzle is that inequality directly impacts on welfare; people feeling worse off compared to the rest of the economy. When it comes to welfare, consumption captures people utility better than income does. Using consumption expenditure data from different waves of …

Context-Aware Goal-Oriented Business Process Modeling, Mariam Armia Keriakos Sawers

Theses and Dissertations

Informed decision making and flexibility have grown to be important standard requirements in the field of business process modeling and design due to the emergence of intrinsically complex variables within the business environment. Traditionally, researches on business process modeling and informed decision making have focused on the configurability of business process models. Our review of literature made us realize that researchers in this field have considerably neglected the main drivers of flexibility and decision-making which have an extensive impact on business process flow. Such drivers form, in our opinion, cross cutting concerns that need to be extracted from within the …

Economic And Financial Valuation Of The Marble Industry In Egypt, Farah Ahmed Haggag

Theses and Dissertations

This study is mainly to evaluate economically and financially the whole marble industry in Egypt. An industrial analysis on the marble industry is done which includes: summary on the international market of marble, sector and enterprises' structure, nature of competition, pricing, and differentiated marble and granite products in the local market. Also, a cluster analysis on the marble cluster is done that comprise: the marble cluster map, the marble cluster diamond, the five forces that shape industry competition, and competitive analysis. A financial valuation is conducted on the marble supply chain divided to the extraction and processing using an investment …

Determining An Optimum Cropping Pattern For Egypt, Loujaina M. El Sayed

Theses and Dissertations

Agriculture is considered to be the major economic activity in Egypt despite the government policies that favored other sectors since the second half of the 20^th century. However, Egypt currently faces a food security challenge that stems from the increasing demand for food in light of huge population growth and the inability of the agricultural sector to fulfill the abovementioned increasing demand.

This research focuses on the vertical expansion of the agricultural sector through attempting to determine the optimum cropping mix for Egypt in the year 2017. A fuzzy goal programming (FGP) approach for optimal land allocation is utilized. …