Mdf Iii Conference « Voices for Change, Partners for Prosperity » Egyptian Center for Economic Studies

Municipal Governance and Expanded NGOs Role in Selected Countries in the Middle East∗ MDF 3 Forum: Voices for Change, Partners for Prosperity

The Impacts of Spatial Planning on Degrowth

As the current growth economy has created severe environmental pollution and unbalanced distribution of prosperity, there is an increasing amount of critical voices calling for a change. The new concept of degrowth addresses a fundamental change in political, economic and institutional levels underpinning different norms and values towards sustainability. Spatial planning institutions have a de...

Public Education, Technological Change and Economic Prosperity

We introduce publicly funded education in R&D-based economic growth theory. The framework allows us to i) incorporate a realistic process of human capital accumulation for industrialized countries, ii) reconcile R&D-based growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic prosperity and population growth, iii) revise the policy invariance result of semi-endogenous gr...

Voices for Change Hopes and costs for empowerment – a study on women’s claims in the Egyptian revolution

Do Workers\' Remittances Matter for the Egyptian Economy?

Workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. Although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, Egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. Empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ ...