This Palgrave Pivot, in light of the new conditions, the new realities and the essential new “unknowns” abruptly thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic, offers pragmatic policy prescriptions to Egyptian decision-makers as a road map to guide them in steering the country out of crisis and toward a better future for the Egyptian people. Egypt is the world’s 14th largest country by population but ranks only 44th globally with regards to its GDP (in 2019 nominal US$ terms). The mismatch between Egypt’s population size and GDP rank highlights a key concern of this work – that in spite of...