Black Friday Sales taking place this month are taking their toll on Cairo’s e-commerce sites. The sales [...]
Egypt’s Black Friday: Paradise for customers and calculated loss for businesses
It seems like only yesterday when Black Friday was only a concept we became familiar with in [...]
Network Readiness Index 2020
Is the Network Readiness Index a fair measure of non-Western economies?
The Network Readiness Index (NRI) is a metric which measures how prepared countries are to use information [...]
Remittances
What explains the increase in remittances during the COVID-19 crisis?
Remittances play a vital socioeconomic role in economies around the world, especially in developing countries where they [...]
Agri-business
How can Egypt’s agri-business sector overcome long running chronic issues?
According to a recently published report by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Egypt’s agricultural business [...]
Youth unemployment
How a small labor scheme helped hundreds of poor women in Minya achieve self-employment
With the help of small amounts of funding and training, hundreds of young women in the Upper [...]
Research and informal communities
Covid-19 and the need for new approaches to capture informality in Egypt
COVID-19 became a reality in Egypt last March, and like elsewhere, it fiercely attacked the country’s vulnerable [...]
EdTech
An infant market: How can Edtech reach its full potential in Egypt?
For many, the word education is synonymous with teachers, lecturers, books and classrooms. In the traditional mindset, [...]
Responsible business
Changing Business As Usual: the purposeful business [series]
COVID-19 has indeed exposed the existing vulnerabilities of the world, but it also shed light on models [...]
E-commerce in Egypt
Is e-commerce witnessing a boom in Egypt?
Egypt has the largest consumer market in the Middle East, which also makes it the largest retail [...]
