Egypt: Economic Development, Environment, Health & the Internet
- African Development Bank Group on Egypt (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
- Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges -- Official Website
- Central Bank of Egypt (Cairo)
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Egypt Profile (Lusaka, Zambia)Basic country information, banking infrastructure, investment guidelines, and other major economic indicators.
- COP27--UN Conference on Climate Change, November 6--18, 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
- COVID-19 News from Egypt
- Al-Ahram Online (English): Covid-19, 2020-- . (Cairo)
- Egypt Independent: Coronavirus, 2020--. (Cairo, Egypt)
The English language version of Al-Masry al-Youm, a daily independent newspaper in Cairo. - Egypt Today: Coronavirus, 2020--. (Ashburn, Virginia, USA; Cairo, Egypt)
- Mada Masr: Daily COVID-19 Round-up -and- Coronavirus Features (Cairo)
- Al-Ahram Online (English): Covid-19, 2020-- . (Cairo)
- Demographic and Health Surveys--Egypt (2015 and earlier) (Calverton, Marylan)
- Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (Cairo, Egypt)
- The site offers online publications, information about conferences, and related links. '...to improve the quality and increase the quantity of applied policy-oriented economic research...launched in June of 1993, with assistance from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the European Commission, the Ford Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank, subsequently followed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.'
- "Economic impact of Covid-19 on Egypt's tourism and remiittances." April 14, 2020. The Forum.
- ERF Working papers
- Policy perspective (policy briefs)
- ERF conferences & workshops
- ERF open access "data portal"
- Egypt's Information Portal: Information and Decision Support Center (Cairo)The site offers a wide array of current business and economic information, an extensive library of studies/reports on Egyptian economy, and links to government sites.
- Egypt. Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (Cairo)General information about the ministry, museums, zoological and botanical gardens, the National Agricultural Library (no online catalog), and the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture. See also, the web site for the Ministry's Agricultural Research Center.
- Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (Cairo)
- "The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) is a non-profit, non-government think-tank. The mission of the Center is to promote economic development in Egypt by conducting and disseminating applied policy research."
- Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority (EGSMA) (Cairo)General background and contact information for the departments and their programs, and links to information about mining companies and mining agreements.
- Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) (Cairo)General information about the EMA, its activities, related links, and current weather forecasts for Egypt.
- ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)Search for Egypt: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Egypt, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Egypt (Rome, Italy)
- FAO Country Profile on Egypt
- FAO Aquastat Programme: Egypt, 2016A profile of Egyptian water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
- Egypt in the FAO Document Repository
- FAO Country Profile on Egypt
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on Egypt (Washington, DC)
- "Through its policy analyses, which is of broad relevance to the developing world, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor."
Selected publications downloadable in PDF format or order information: - "The Egyptian food subsidy system...options for reform," by Akhter U. Ahmed ...[et al.] (2001). Research report ; 119.
- "Wheat policy reform in Egypt...future reforms," by Mylène Kherallah ...[et al.] (2000). Research report ; 115.
- IFPRI Publications -- Full List
- IFPRI Home Page
- "Through its policy analyses, which is of broad relevance to the developing world, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor."
- The International Monetary Fund: Arab Republic of Egypt Country Info (Washington, DC)Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
- International Trade Centre on Egypt (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Statistical profiles on Egyptian commerce. "The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) is the focal point in the United Nations system for technical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. ITC was created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1964 and since 1968 has been operated jointly by GATT (now by the World Trade Organization, or WTO) and the UN, the latter acting through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)."
- Egyptian Imports, 1995-99 and Exports, 1995-99 (in HTML)
- For other data, see: ITC Country Index
- The Nile Basin Initiative (Entebbe, Uganda)General information and news. "Building upon earlier co-operative efforts, the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) was launched in Dar es Salaam in February 1999. The NBI is a regional partnership within which countries of the Nile basin have united in common pursuit of the sustainable development and management of Nile waters."
- Social Fund for Development (Cairo) In Arabic only
- United Nations Agencies on Egypt -- Economy
- United Nations Development Programme on Egypt (New York and Cairo)-- UNDP in Egypt: reports and news (Cairo)
-- Human Development Index for Egypt (2019)
-- Egypt's Social Contract: The Role of Civil Society--Egypt Human Development Report 2008 PDF format
-- Choosing our Future: Towards a New Social Contract--Egypt Human Development Report 2005 PDF format
-- Choosing Decentralization for Good Governance--Egypt Human Development Report 2004 PDF format
-- Egypt Human Development Report 2003 PDF format
-- Globalization--Egypt Human Development Report 2000/2001 PDF format
-- Education--Egypt Human Development Report 1999 - UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Egypt: economy slows as reforms lose steam." (2003) Chapter 6 in Economic report on Africa 2003: accelerating the pace of development. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) PDF format.
- UNFCCC--United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Bonn, Germany)
Egypt Second National Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (May 2010) -- Cairo: Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, 2010. 137 pages in PDF format - UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Egypt Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
- UN Industrial Development Organization: Egypt, 1998-- (Vienna, Austria)Brief profile on Egyptian economy, brief summaries on UNIDO projects, some statistics, and related links.
- United Nations Development Programme on Egypt (New York and Cairo)
- United States Agencies on Egypt (Washington, DC)
- United States Agency for International Development on Egypt
- General information on USAID activities in Egypt. For projects, click on map, view list of project titles, with links to descriptions in brief and in detail.
- Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)Search the entire database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Egypt.
- General information on USAID activities in Egypt. For projects, click on map, view list of project titles, with links to descriptions in brief and in detail.
- United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
- United States. Department of Commerce. International Trade Administration: Search by Country--Trade & Industry Analysis
- United States. Energy Information Administration on Egypt. (Washington, DC)
- United States Agency for International Development on Egypt
- The World Bank on Egypt (Washington, DC)
- The World Bank on Egypt, 1998--A country brief, news, special reports, and a profile of economic indicators; plus a searchable database.
- Middle East & North Africa Profiles and News
- The World Bank on Egypt, 1998--