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Education and employment in Egypt: the policies, discrepancies and possible solutions

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  • Abdel-Rahman, Alaa
  • Fuller, David

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For the past decades, different economic policies were implemented in order to better the Egyptians’ living standards. However when we look at where Egypt stands in terms of quality of education and labor efficiency, we realize that those policies did not help as much as we would have hoped. With an outlook on these different policies and potential solutions to overcome their inefficiencies, the author analyzes a potential starting point which includes working on the education sector in order to upgrade the Egyptians’ living standards and hopefully, the growth path of the economy. It was found that a simple increase of 20% in the quality of education leads to almost double the average growth rate of the country.

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  • Abdel-Rahman, Alaa & Fuller, David, 2014. "Education and employment in Egypt: the policies, discrepancies and possible solutions," MPRA Paper 67571, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    development; education; macroeconomics; policies; Egypt;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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