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Social Security in Egypt: An Analysis and Agenda for Policy Reform

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  • Markus Loewe

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This paper analyses Egypt's social protection systems. It asks why poverty is so widespread and why ? despite the country's numerous sophisticated social protection systems - social risks are a major contributing factor to poverty in Egypt. It concludes that reforms are due. The existing systems are well funded but comparatively inefficient and more to the benefit of the better-off than the poor. A strategy is proposed which builds, on the one hand, on reforming the existing public pension schemes and extending public social assistance spending and, on the other hand, on policy measures designed to make people more aware of social risks as well as on partnerships between NGOs, private insurance companies and the state aimed at offering micro-insurance to the poor.

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  • Markus Loewe, 2000. "Social Security in Egypt: An Analysis and Agenda for Policy Reform," Working Papers 2024, Economic Research Forum, revised 08 2000.
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    1. Imane Helmy & Christian Richter & Khalid Siddig & Hebatallah Ghoneim, 2018. "A Comparison of the Economics Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers in Egypt," Working Papers 50, The German University in Cairo, Faculty of Management Technology.
    2. Hanan Nazier & Racha Ramadan, 2015. "Informality and Poverty: A Causality Dilemma with Application to Egypt," Advances in Management and Applied Economics, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 1-4.
    3. Valentine M. Moghadam, 2005. "Gender and Social Policy: Family Law and Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Middle East," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 23-44, July.
    4. Oznur Ozdamar & Eleftherios Giovanis, 2016. "The Effect of Survivors’ Benefits on Poverty and Health Indicators of Women and Children in Widowed-Mother Households: A Turkish Case Study," Working Papers 1018, Economic Research Forum, revised Jun 2016.
    5. Solveig Cunningham & Kathryn Yount & Michal Engelman & Emily Agree, 2013. "Returns on Lifetime Investments in Children in Egypt," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 50(2), pages 699-724, April.
    6. Aurora Angeli & Marco Novelli, 2017. "Transitions in Late-Life Living Arrangements and Socio-economic Conditions of the Elderly in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia," Working Papers 1083, Economic Research Forum, revised 04 2017.
    7. Rawaa Harati, 2013. "Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?," Post-Print halshs-00820783, HAL.

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