Policy Research Reports
Accelerating the Progress of Egypt Towards the Sustainable Development Goals
No.
PRR 54
Publisher
ERF
Date
December, 2024
Summary
This report analyzes the different characteristics of the Egyptian economy to investigate its progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Thus, it proceeds in three steps: first, it provides a macroeconomic analysis of its economic growth, its sources and its evolution. Second, it analyzes the different macroeconomic (fiscal and monetary) policies, with the aim of seeing how such policies contributed to Egypt’s sustainable development. Third, the report presents the different development dimensions including health, education, institutions, environment, and infrastructure. The main findings show that, while macroeconomic policies helped the economy stabilize in the short term, development was not mainstreamed within such policies. This is why Egypt’s progress in SDGs is rather modest, compared to other economies from the region or belonging to the same income level. Deeper and more structural reforms are needed to make the private sector more dynamic and to streamline development in macroeconomic policies.
Research Fellows
Chahir Zaki
Chaired Professor of Economics, University of Orléans