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This paper investigates the relationship between climate conditions and money-metric poverty in Egypt at a sub-national level, aiming to understand the nuanced impacts of environmental factors on household well-being.

Employing a geographically weighted regression, the study analyzes data on climate conditions, socioeconomic indicators and poverty rates across different regions of Egypt.

The analysis reveals complex relationships between climate conditions, socioeconomic factors, and poverty rates in Egypt. Higher education, asset ownership and urban residence are associated with lower poverty rates, while larger household size correlates with increased poverty. Temperature and precipitation show varied impacts on poverty between extreme and average climate conditions and across different regions, highlighting the need for localized strategies.

The findings underscore the importance of tailored interventions to address the localized impacts of climate change on poverty. Policymakers can use the insights from this research to prioritize vulnerable areas and implement targeted measures to alleviate poverty and enhance climate resilience.

By identifying areas most susceptible to climate change, this research informs policies aimed at protecting marginalized communities from its adverse effects. It contributes to broader efforts to promote social equity and environmental sustainability in Egypt.

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the climate–poverty nexus in Egypt, offering insights into the localized impacts of climate change on household well-being. The findings contribute to both academic discourse and policy development, guiding efforts to address poverty and climate vulnerability at the regional level.

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-04-2024-0317

This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of health-care financing in Egypt by assessing all five financing sources individually and then combining them to analyze the equity of the whole financing system.

Lorenz dominance analysis and Kakwani progressivity index were applied on data from 2010/2011 Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey and the National Health Accounts 2011 using Stata to evaluate the progressivity of each source of health-care finance and the financing system overall.

The data show that Egypt’s health-care system, which is largely financed by out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, is slightly regressive, with an overall Kakwani index of −0.079. The overall regressive effect was the result of three regressive sources (OOP payments, an earmarked cigarette tax and direct taxes), one proportional finance source (social health insurance) and two slightly progressive sources (indirect taxes and private health insurance). This shows that the burden of financing health care falls more on the poor. These results signal the need for reform of health-care financing in Egypt to reduce dependence on OOP payments to achieve more equitable financing.

The paper seeks to augment the literature on health-care financing in Egypt by calculating specific progressivity estimates for all five sources of financing the Egyptian health-care system and analyzing the overall equity of this financing system. It will, therefore, provide a benchmark for monitoring the equity of finance in the Egyptian health-care system in future studies and allow one to assess the impact of implemented financing reforms in the future on the level of progressivity of health system financing.

This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women’s economic empowerment in highly patriarchal societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as measured by two dimensions: decision-making power and mobility.

Using the “Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey” (ELMPS) 2012, a Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model was estimated to study the main economic resources and social constraints that determine women empowerment as measured by the power of women over household decisions and her freedom of movement in Egypt.

Three key messages could be delivered. First, women’s own economic resources as captured by her employment status are an important source of her empowerment. Second, contrary to theoretical prediction education is not playing its expected role in developing awareness and transforming ideas concerning gender roles in Egypt. Third, the importance of social local context is fundamental for Egyptian women empowerment.

This study is an attempt to address some of the gaps in the literature for the Egyptian case, where there is a lack in rigorous studies measuring women empowerment and examining its determinates. This is done by first, tackling multiple dimension of women’s empowerment, decision-making inside households and freedom of mobility. Second, using MIMIC model, which is a modeling approach that allows for studying the relations between several causes of a given latent variable, such as “Empowerment” in our case, and a number of its possible indicators, without a directly observable measure of the latent variable. Third, using the most recent set of data; the ELMPS 2012 which has a special focus on women’s resources and agency that permits greater content validity of the multidimensional setup. Forth, the macro level differences in women’s status are tackled through using location dummy variables. Finally, given the important correlation between wealth level and women empowerment, the paper is considered a first attempt to analyze such impact by including a variable that captures the wealth level of the woman’s household as one determinant of empowerment.