Building Infrastructure and Social Capital in Rural Egypt
Disparity in growth rates between Upper and Lower Egypt has been dramatic. While national per capita income averaged 3 percent growth annually beginning in the mid 1990s, and growth rates in metropolitan areas approached 8 percent -- Upper Egypt ex...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/08/8608890/building-infrastructure-social-capital-rural-egypt http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9563 |
| Summary: | Disparity in growth rates between Upper
and Lower Egypt has been dramatic. While national per capita
income averaged 3 percent growth annually beginning in the
mid 1990s, and growth rates in metropolitan areas approached
8 percent -- Upper Egypt experienced negative per capita
growth rates during the same period. By 2001, Upper Egypt
accounted for 37 percent of the country's population,
but 65 percent of the population lived below the poverty
line. Yet rural development programs under similar
conditions throughout Egypt recently experienced some
significant successes. The most notable success was a
participatory approach to rural development planning
introduced in the framework of the 1994 National Program for
Integrated Rural Development -- known as Shorouk or Sunrise. |
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