This article informs that the national trade association of the apparel and footwear industries - welcomed the announcement designating new qualified industrial zones QIZ in Egypt. These QIZ's will help ensure that U.S. apparel and footwear companies in Egypt remain competitive, particularly after quotas are removed on textiles and apparel...
In order to understand the brewing process in ancient Egypt, a new folkloristic approach was extensively investigated using the current traditional, home-produced alcoholic foods and beverages found in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Studies revealed that the beer bread of ancient Egypt was a good starter that 'protected' beer from...
The furniture industry around the world is undergoing a period of rapid globalization. With the rapid globalization of the furniture industry and the competitive pressures of imports, a nation had to find a way to stay competitive. The objective of the paper is to propose group of policies that might...
Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are highly complex information systems. ERP implementation is a very difficult and expensive project an organization can ever take. It was reported that 75% of the ERP projects are classified as failures (Griffith, 1999). In Egypt, the success rate of implementing ERP systems is extremely...
Intellectual Capital IC has always been important. IC enabled the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. It helped Henry Ford fuel the industrial era. However, until now, economic value has been created primarily through the use of tangible resources like factories and raw materials. Peter Drucker helped people understand that...
By Wael Gamal CAIRO (Reuters UK) - Standard Chartered STAN and Samba Financial Group have been disqualified from bidding for a stake in Egypt's Banque du Caire, leaving three bidders remaining, a banking official said on Wednesday. "Samba and Standard Chartered were disqualified," Ali Al...
In ancient Egypt, slaves learned to build pyramids for the Pharaohs by watching and by doing. This method of training continued through the early 1900s when the shift to mass production turned the focus of training to improving efficiency. With the rise of bureaucracy during WWII, training became more formalized...
Successful countries who import key labor from abroad (think of the barbarians in Rome's armies as well as of the slave dynasties of India and Egypt) often end up ruled by that labor and/or its local interests. Today, America hires Indians to do otherwise expensive IT and Business Process Outsourcing...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: We think we have it bad here... Although it's widely believed to be underestimated, the CPI in the US is on the lighter side of inflation compared to the 70 other countries listed below. As shown, the median CPI for the...
Believe it or not surveyors lead interesting lives and their work makes an interesting subject for artwork. One of the most astounding pieces of survey art was born in Cairo in the tomb of Mena at Sheikh Abd el Qurna, in Thebes, Upper Egypt. Over the past thirty years the...
This paper discusses the issue of how protection can affect the rate of growth for a small, open economy. In the presence of exogenously given factor accumulation, tariffs either raise or lower an economy's growth rate measured by the change in the value of output at world prices, relative to...
John Christy submits: ETF junkies have been dying for a frontier markets fund for quite some time, and their wish has finally come true. Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets just started trading under the ticker FRN. Given the buzz surrounding frontier markets, FRN will probably sell like hotcakes, but don’t...
The Special 301 report addresses significant concerns in countries as Brazil, Colombia, India, Hungary, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, the Philippines, Russia, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, and members of the Andean Community due to its persistent failure effective action against significant levels of optical media piracy. USTR devoted special...
It is possible to illustrate with two very basic examples how the Uruguay GATT round has been impervious to the needs of developing countries while securing the interests of the industrialised nations. A fundamental quid pro quo between the developing and developing nations should have been the granting of labour...
David Merkel submits: In different economic eras, different things attract the attention of the media, investors, politicians, etc. Today a leading attention grabber would be crude oil, and the energy complex. It is a honeypot for conspiracy theorists and unscrupulous politicians not quite an oxymoron. 1) Fuel is...
The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key copyright industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, and film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter Diamond model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in...
Strategic thinking has become indispensable for public relations managers to ensure successful contact with their publics. The study has established, for the first time, a causal relationship between the organizational worldviews of public relations models of communication and the strategic thinking of the practitioners themselves; a link never discussed in...
This paper develops and estimates a structural model of imperfect competition in international markets. The model incorporates a flexible non-linear demand framework with structural price equations, and a general Conjectural Variation approach is developed to characterize strategic interaction. The model is used to evaluate the effects of the signature by...
The thermal performance of the mechanical vapor compression MVC system was investigated. This work describes the mathematical and experimental study of the MVC system. The unit, with a capacity of 5 cu.m/d, is currently located in the heat transfer laboratory of the Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt. Some details of...
This paper explains the impact of regulatory and institutional distortions, and reforms instituted to remedy them on the private manufacturing sector of Egypt. We undertake this study using a generalized cost function, which subsumes the standard neoclassical cost function as a special case. This approach allows us to assess the...
