The world economy is currently facing a
severe global crisis that has spilled from the financial
sector to the real economy. The crisis can be traced back
to July 2007 with the liquidity crisis due to the loss of
confidence in the mortgage credit markets in the United
States. The hope was that the crisis would be restricted to
financial markets, with few repercussions on the real
economy and the rest of the world. This hope was shattered
in September 2008 as the crisis entered an acute...

THIS study highlighted the impact of the International Economic Crisis on the investment environment and the financial policies of the Arab economies, with emphasis on its causes, repercussions and the mechanisms necessary to confront it. The study noted that the international economic crisis the world is facing is the worst since the 1930s. It also enumerated the roots of the current crisis and its impact on the world economy. It tackled the most significant effects of the crisis on the Arab states, especially on their stock markets, the expatriates' fund transfers and the levels of...

Promoting (SMEs) have been one of the best strategies for achieving economic development. Many Arab countries have recognized the importance of small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs), and have formulated policies to encourage, support, and fund there. The benefits of SMEs to any economy are easily noticeable, they include: contribution to an economy in terms of creation of jobs, development of skilled and semi- skilled workers, and developing and adapting appropriate technological approaches. This book aims to study the developmental role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

The Egyptian society suffers significantly from the weakness of human rights especially the economic ones.There was growing unemployment and poverty rates in Egypt, which requires the need to pump new investments to address the severity of this problem that accumulate day after day, with negative repercussions on the society of the proliferation of social crimes, and the high dependency ratio and delayed age of marriage, as well as the security implications and psychological trauma.The Egyptian society still has many of the major challenges to be addressed quickly in the realization of the...