Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt

doi:10.1596/32812

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Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-09T17:40:53Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-09T17:40:53Z
dc.date.issued	2019-06
dc.description.abstract	In 2015, a large share of Egypt's population was either poor (27.8 percent) or not poor but vulnerable to falling into poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Clearly the country faces a challenge, but it also has the knowledge to craft solutions. Egypt's recent reforms have started to address some of the country’s economic sustainability challenges. Targeted social protection programs must continue to be an essential element of poverty reduction policy. Looking ahead, this report calls attention to the fact that re-orienting education investments towards more effective learning that raises people's employability and productivity and putting in place policies that encourage job creation will be key to sustained poverty reduction. Revitalizing education and job creation will be important for maximizing the poverty-reducing potential of the economic reform program. One of the hallmarks of healthy economies is a substantial middle class, a group often thought to be an engine of economic growth. In Egypt, a notable share of the population, close to 30 percent, can be considered middle class. Compared to the poor and vulnerable, the middle class has higher education, more assets, and better connectivity to basic services and spends a relatively large share of income on education and health. It is clearly a goal in developing countries to enlarge the middle class in order to strengthen the overall economy.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/351121575640799887/Understanding-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-Egypt
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/32812
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32812
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	VULNERABILITY
dc.subject	GENDER
dc.title	Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt
okr.date.disclosure	2019-12-06
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Poverty Assessment
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/351121575640799887/Understanding-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-Egypt
okr.guid	351121575640799887
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/32812
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0873c2ea3_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	31617002
okr.identifier.report	144189
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/351121575640799887/pdf/Understanding-Poverty-and-Inequality-in-Egypt.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.country	Egypt, Arab Republic of
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.unit	EFI-MNA-POV-Poverty and Equity (EMNPV)