For years, Damietta has been the capital of the Egyptian furniture industry, and up until recently, it was an island of growth and prosperity in a sea of economic hardship. Has the Sisi government’s megaproject [ More … ]
An announcement by the Egyptian government that it will not hire any staff for the next five years has sparked anger among civil servants. Government workers said the tactic was a heavy-handed, cost-cutting measure that [ More … ]
Morocco’s economic growth is expected to reach 4.4 percent in 2017, while unemployment rates is expected to rise to more than 10 percent, according to Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) forecasts. In 2017, the Moroccan economy is [ More … ]
Egypt’s revenues from Suez Canal trade recorded a three-year low in February after registering $375.8 million compared to $401.4 million the same month last year, according to data from the Suez Canal Authority published by [ More … ]
European Commission forecasts ‘political and policy uncertainty’ to fall in second half of 2017 following Turkish referendum The European Commission on Monday forecast Turkey’s economy to grow 2.8 percent in 2017. In its Winter 2017 [ More … ]
Since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pursued office in mid-2014 after he led a military coup in 2013 against Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president, the two main goals of al-Sisi were to maintain social [ More … ]
Despite Egypt’s economic problems and the austerity policies announced by the government ahead of the IMF loan agreement, the regime is ready to spend almost half a million dollars on building a museum. Japan has [ More … ]
On the occasion of the International Population Day on Monday, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed new data about the population in the occupied Palestinian territory, which it said now totaled 4.81 million [ More … ]
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