Competitiveness and Private Sector Development: Egypt 2010
Business Climate Development Strategy
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The OECD assessment is the first phase of a Business Climate Development Strategy (BCDS) which identifies policy priorities and proposes specific reforms and actions to enable Egypt to achieve measurable improvements in its business climate. One key finding is that Egypt’s investment and trade policy reforms have moved the country’s business climate closer to best practice in OECD economies. However, the report notes that to attract further private investment, Egypt needs to improve the country’s anti-corruption measures, skills development, infrastructure and access to finance, especially for the country's small-and-medium sized enterprises. BCDS Egypt offers specific recommendations on how policies, institutions and regulations can be improved to increase predictability for investors and make Egypt a prime investment destination.
This review was carried out as part of the wider MENA-OECD Investment Programme. It uses a new BCDS methodology that evaluates the business climate in 12 policy areas and draws on core OECD instruments, such as the Policy Framework for Investment (PFI), which have been successfully applied in other countries. By helping countries prioritise their actions and build consensus among stakeholders, the BCDS process supports the successful implementation of reforms to develop the private sector in the MENA region.
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Recent Business Climate Reforms in Egypt
Egypt’s business environment has improved substantially in recent years as a result of a series of successful economic reforms, mainly at the macroeconomic level. The reforms have been undertaken by the pro-business government formed under the Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif, in 2004. This chapter discusses the substantial and tangible advances in many areas of the operational business environment and highlights some of the major reforms that have taken place in Egypt since 2004, and which have played a positive role in improving Egypt’s business climate. Arising from a need to stimulate economic growth and generate new jobs, the government set out to improve Egypt’s overall economic performance in order to increase its growth potential and favour sustainable development. Areas highlighted here that have showed noticeable improvements include the government’s privatisation programme, taxation, trade tariffs, monetary policy, the banking sector and infrastructure.
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