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Egypt beyond the crisis : medium-term challenges for sustained growth
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis adjusts the national accounts statistics to include the compensation of self-employed and non-paid family workers. Still, the share of labor, about 30 percent, is significantly lower than previously estimated. The authors estimate the output costs of the current crisis by comparing the output trajectory that would have prevailed without the crisis with the observed and revised gross domestic product projections for the medium term. The fall in private investment was the main driver of the output cost. Even if private investment recovers its pre-crisis levels, there is a permanent loss in gross domestic product per capita of about 2 percent with respect to the scenario without the crisis. The paper shows how the shock to investment is magnified due to the capital-intensive nature of the Egyptian economy: if the economy had the traditionally-used share of labor in income (40 percent), the output loss would have been reduced by half.


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Egypt beyond the crisis : medium-term challenges for sustained growth
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis adjusts the national accounts statistics to include the compensation of self-employed and non-paid family workers. Still, the share of labor, about 30 percent, is significantly lower than previously estimated. The authors estimate the output costs of the current crisis by comparing the output trajectory that would have prevailed without the crisis with the observed and revised gross domestic product projections for the medium term. The fall in private investment was the main driver of the output cost. Even if private investment recovers its pre-crisis levels, there is a permanent loss in gross domestic product per capita of about 2 percent with respect to the scenario without the crisis. The paper shows how the shock to investment is magnified due to the capital-intensive nature of the Egyptian economy: if the economy had the traditionally-used share of labor in income (40 percent), the output loss would have been reduced by half.


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Memphis under the Ptolemies
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ISBN: 9780691152172 9780691140339 0691140332 0691152179 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press,

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Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.


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Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink
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ISBN: 9780691140681 0691140685 0691156166 9786612976445 1400838401 1282976443 9780691156163 9781400838400 6612976446 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen? The first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, Debtor Nation traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its transformation from fringe to mainstream--thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition. How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Why was all consumer credit, not just mortgages, tax deductible until 1986? Who invented the credit card? Examining the intersection of government and business in everyday life, Louis Hyman takes the reader behind the scenes of the institutions that made modern lending possible: the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of multinationals, and the back rooms of loan sharks. America's newfound indebtedness resulted not from a culture in decline, but from changes in the larger structure of American capitalism that were created, in part, by the choices of the powerful--choices that made lending money to facilitate consumption more profitable than lending to invest in expanded production. From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending, Debtor Nation presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business.

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Consumer credit --- Debt --- Loans, Personal --- Crédit à la consommation --- Dettes --- Prêts personnels --- History --- Histoire --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- 20th century --- Loans [Personal ] --- Consumentenkrediet --- Schulden --- Economie en handel --- Verenigde Staten --- Geschiedenis. --- 1900-1999. --- Consumer loans --- Loans, Consumer --- Loans, Small --- Personal loans --- Small loans --- Loans --- Indebtedness --- Finance --- Consumer debt --- Credit --- American banks. --- American capitalism. --- American consumers. --- American economy. --- Federal Housing Administration. --- Federal Reserve. --- National City Bank. --- New Deal housing policy. --- Regulation W. --- Roosevelt administration. --- Title I loan program. --- borrowing. --- business loans. --- capitalism. --- commercial banks. --- commercial loans. --- consumer credit. --- consumer debt. --- consumer lending. --- consumption. --- credit access. --- credit activists. --- credit card investments. --- credit card. --- credit cards. --- credit institutions. --- credit rating. --- credit system. --- credit use. --- credit. --- debt. --- debtors. --- entrepreneurial innovation. --- federal policy. --- financial institutions. --- governmental policy. --- home equity loans. --- industrial economy. --- installment credit. --- investment capital. --- legal lending. --- legalized personal loans. --- lending. --- material prosperity. --- modern America. --- modern credit system. --- modern debt. --- money lending. --- mortgages. --- national mortgage markets. --- personal debt. --- personal lending. --- personal loan departments. --- personal loans. --- postwar United States. --- postwar prosperity. --- regulation. --- residential housing. --- revolving credit. --- social status. --- wealth inequality.


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Emile and Isaac Pereire : Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 1526110954 9781526110954 9780719089237 0719089239 1526110946 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester, England ; New York, New York : Manchester University Press,

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Emile (1800-75) and Isaac Pereire (1806-80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant Saint-Simonians, contributing to its philosophy of financial and economic reform. They were the first to implement the new rail technology in France and to launch the first investment bank of any size in Europe, the Crédit Mobilier. The Pereires ultimately came to stand behind banks and railways throughout Europ

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Jewish businesspeople. --- Industrialists. --- Businesspeople. --- Industrialists --- Jewish businesspeople --- Businesspeople --- Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Professional employees --- Manufacturers --- Jewish businessmen --- Pereire, Isaac, --- Pereire, Emile, --- France. --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Pereire, Jacob-Emile, --- Pereire, J., --- Farans --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Pʻŭrangs --- Emile. --- Isaac Pereire. --- Judaism. --- Saint-Simonianism. --- business practices. --- family business. --- investment capital. --- nineteenth-century France. --- partnership. --- political allegiance. --- railway entrepreneurs. --- socialism.

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