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Egypt's External Debt: An Attempt To Apply Sargent-Wallace Model To Egypt, Ashraf Mahmoud Abdel Moneim
Egypt's External Debt: An Attempt To Apply Sargent-Wallace Model To Egypt, Ashraf Mahmoud Abdel Moneim
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This research will analyze the Egyptian external debt, and its effect on the budget deficit and how the external debt could be rolled. We will see the government's policies, and how it affected the economy. The Gulf War had its effect in rescheduling and canceling some debt. Alternatives of deficit financing to prevent borrowing will be discussed. Thomas Sargent and Neil Wallace have introduced a model by which the government can meet its debt problem. Sargent and Wallace gave a solution to the problem of debt financing by printing money. This method is called "money financing." We will apply this …
Youth Livelihood Opportunities In Egypt, Safaa El-Kogali, Nagah Hassan Al Bassusi
Youth Livelihood Opportunities In Egypt, Safaa El-Kogali, Nagah Hassan Al Bassusi
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
This report presents results from a quantitative and qualitative study on youth livelihood opportunities in Egypt. The study was motivated by growing evidence of increasing unemployment among the young at a time when new entrants into the labor force are also increasing at unprecedented rates. Egypt has a youth population of over 13 million aged 15–24—over a fifth of the total population. They constitute the largest segment of the economically active population. Whether this bulge of young workers entering the labor force is a “demographic gift” or a “demographic burden” depends in large measure on the policies that are in …