One in five Egyptians faces multidimensional poverty, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a ...

Casual wage labor in Egypt is most often a function of poverty. A 1997 survey of 2,500 rural and urban households by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that the poor ...

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"Nobody hears the poor. It is the rich who are being heard."—a discussion group of poor men and women, Egypt "Poverty is humiliation, the sense of being dependent and of being forced to accept ...

Egypt, a country of more than 103 million people ... For the nearly third of Egyptians living in poverty, and the millions more in poor conditions, the country's economic woes mean life is ...

Save the Children is focused on Egypt’s most vulnerable children, including street children, child refugees and girls in rural communities, helping give them the chance to be healthy, learn and stay ...

Led by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), we reviewed how the citizens of Egypt move in and out of poverty and have jointly understood that ill-health (sickness in the family ...

When Egypt announced plans for a minimum wage late ... Although one in four Egyptians lives below a poverty line of $1.65 a day, many workers say the 1,200 Egyptian pound ($170) minimum wage ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could lift tens of millions out of poverty. Downstream in Egypt, where the Nile meets the sea ...