YES Country Network Egypt – YCNEG –
YES Egypt
Poverty in Egypt
Prepared by
Moustafa Hussein Habshy
Media Team – YES Egypt
Look at this picture… concentrate…What can you see or
figure out from such a picture??!!! Any way I won't say my
opinion now but I'll let you think and then tell me what do
you think??!!
At first there are two main questions that should be related to
mind when we speak about such thing like POVERTY
What & Why
What is poverty?? And Why poverty??
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Sustainable Development Association (SDA)
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Poverty means, the inability of a person or a country to
obtain food, clothes, and shelter to live
Poverty exists in every nation on the face of the earth.
Egypt is no exception. Poverty is nothing to be ashamed
of……..
I think that by knowing What & Why POVERTY we
may be able to put some solutions for this great problem...
But before putting solutions I think that at first we have
to face and see the facts to know the size of our problem
and then come the step of putting the solutions…
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $258 billion
(2001 est.)
GDP - real
2.5% (2001 est.)
growth rate:
GDP - per
purchasing power parity - $3,700 (2001
capita:
est.)
GDP agriculture: 14%
composition by
industry: 30%
sector:
services: 56% (2001)
Population
below poverty
23% (FY95/96 est.)
line:
Household
income or
lowest 10%: 4%
consumption
highest 10%: 25% (1995)
by percentage
share:
Inflation rate
(consumer
2.3% (2001)
prices):
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Labor force:
20.6 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - agriculture 29%, industry 22%, services
by occupation:
49% (2000 est.)
Unemployment
12% (2001 est.)
rate:
Budget:
revenues: $21.5 billion
expenditures: $26.2 billion, including
capital expenditures of $5.9 billion
(2001)
Industries:
textiles, food processing, tourism,
chemicals, hydrocarbons, construction,
cement, metals
Industrial
production
1.8% (2001 est.)
growth rate:
Electricity 69.592 billion kWh (2000)
production:
Electricity fossil fuel: 77%
production by
hydro: 23%
source:
other: 0% (2000)
nuclear: 0%
Electricity 64.721 billion kWh (2000)
consumption:
Electricity 0 kWh (2000)
exports:
Electricity 0 kWh (2000)
imports:
Agriculture - cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits,
products:
vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep,
goats
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Exports:
$7.1 billion f.o.b. (2001 est.)
Exports crude oil and petroleum products, cotton,
commodities:
textiles, metal products, chemicals
Exports EU 43% (Italy 18%, Germany 4%, UK
partners:
3.2%), US 15%, Middle East 11%, Asian
countries 9%, (2000)
Imports:
$164 billion f.o.b. (2001 est.)
Imports machinery and equipment, foodstuffs,
commodities:
chemicals, wood products, fuels
Imports EU 36% (Germany 8%, Italy 8%, France
partners:
6%), US 18%, Asian countries 13%, ,
Middle East 6% (2000)
Debt $29 billion (2001 est.)
external:
Economic aid ODA, $2.25 billion (1999)
recipient:
Currency:
Egyptian pound (EGP)
Currency code:
EGP
Exchange
Egyptian pounds per US dollar - market
rates:
rate - 4.5000 (January 2002), 4.4900
(2001), 3.6900 (2000), 3.4050 (1999),
3.3880 (1998), 3.3880 (1997)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
I think that this table represents some of the facts which
are mainly related to poverty and the simplest thing that
our Imports are $164 billion and our whole Budget is
$21.5 billion….. and the comments are up to you ladies
and gentlemen…
Media Team
Sustainable Development Association (SDA)
YES Country Network Egypt – YCNEG –
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I think that we must stand as one hand to face this
problem and try to find suitable solutions for our
problem…… and dream of a better tomorrow..
References:
All the statistics included are from formal websites either governmental
or International sites.
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Sustainable Development Association (SDA)