Egypt desperately needs foreign assistance to keep its economy from collapsing. The country's neighbors have been stepping up, dwarfing U.S. economic aid since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The long-term economic challenges Egypt must overcome. Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute for International Economics talks with Kai Ryssdal about how Egypt's economy was doing before the ...

While politics remains at the front and center for now, Egypt's economy continues to flounder - and needs some urgent attention too. The Arab country's new finance minister on Wednesday said GDP ...

Sisi often blames Egypt’s economic struggles on turmoil following a 2011 popular uprising, as well as annual population growth that the World Bank put at 1.7 per cent in 2021.

12 June 2012Regardless of who is elected, one of the toughest challenges the new president of Egypt will face is to secure the hefty $22.5 billion needed to finance the deficit of the recently ...

Economic reform in Egypt: Challenges and prospects. Alia Al-Mahdi, Thursday 1 Feb 2018. The government’s ongoing economic reform programme is designed to put an end to years of economic ...

War in the Gaza Strip, on Egypt's northeastern border, has brought risks to tourism and to Suez Canal revenues; receipts from the waterway dropped by about 50% earlier this year. Sisi often blames ...

It is very difficult now to find anybody in Egypt with a lot of patience and will to give this regime time to fix certain issues and mistakes that have been made in economic planning. That's a bigger ...

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Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election on Thursday but a low turnout threatened to deprive him of the strong mandate he needs to fix the ...

Leaders of Egypt, Israel and the ... Egypt, UAE, Israel discuss economic challenges as Iran looms. By Maayan Lubell and Aidan Lewis. March 22, 2022 3:07 PM UTC Updated ago Item 1 of 3 ...

Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute for International Economics talks with Kai Ryssdal about how Egypt's economy was doing before the recent protests, the long-term issues it must deal with ...