The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Economy

Mahmoud Mohieldin is a global economist with over 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is the UN Special Envoy on Financing Sustainable Development and co-leads the UN Expert Group on debt solutions. Formerly Executive Director at the IMF, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at the World Bank, he was Egypt's first Minister of Investment. He is a Professor of Economics, Cairo University, a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution.An adviser to governments and international institutions, Marcelo Giugale is a former Director of the World Bank. In his 35 years of experience, he has led senior-level policy dialogue and over 30 billion dollars in lending and insurance operations across emerging and developing countries. An Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration, his publication record spans macroeconomics, public debt, fiscal risk, and sustainable finance. He was the chief editor of collections of policy notes published for presidential transitions in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.Racha Ramadan is a Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She is a research fellow of the SPSS at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the IMF's Academy. She was Visiting Scholar at Hamburg University, Chicago Center in Paris, and University of Minnesota. She has collaborated on research projects with UNDP, World Bank and UN-ESCWA. Her research focuses on gender, poverty, inequality and food security in developing countries.