Egypt’s Current Economic Features and Policies

Eberhard Kienle (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Bearing in mind the difficulties of making predictions, one could expect the recent agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce fiscal and external deficits as well as public debt without addressing the structural difficulties of the Egyptian economy that affect the creation as well as the distribution of wealth. [First lines]

Keywords: Authoritarism; economy; Egypt; IMF; poverty

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science; Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance

Eberhard Kienle. Egypt’s Current Economic Features and Policies. Rowaq Arabi, 2020, Where is Egypt Going? Political, Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Current Geostrategic Environment?, 25 (3), pp.7-14. ⟨hal-03043924⟩