Youth bulges in developing countries may carry both a potential for growth via demographic
dividends, and ticking political time bombs, depending on the success of authorities in …

Despite increased access to education, women's conspicuous absence from the labour
market in Egypt, and the Arab world in general, has been a key issue. Building on the stock …

This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS)
implemented in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region–Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the perceptions of external auditors' on the motivations
behind management fraud, which could increase the likelihood of detecting financial …

Unemployment is one of the main challenges that the Egyptian economy faces. The purpose
of this paper is to examine how the unemployment rate responds to fiscal policy shocks. The …

The public sector is the key employer of educated women in Arab countries. This article
seeks to explain this phenomenon, embedding the employment experience of these women …

Employment informality, or employment without access to work contracts and social
insurance, is the norm for Egypt's working youth, including educated youth. Despite the …

Youth unemployment in Egypt is a central policy issue. Egypt has witnessed heightened
political mobilization of young people in 2011, as part of what has been described in the …

Abstract Egypt's Strategic Development plan calls for higher-education curricula that
produce workforce-ready graduates. Creating such curricula requires strong understanding …

This study presents an analysis of various facets of inequality in Egypt using a political
economy approach to understand how inequalities are reproduced in the Egyptian …