Egypt beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth
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 adju...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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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