Paper Title
Sociological Challenges for Egypt’s Development: 1981-2013
Abstract
This paper examines the extent to which women’s education, fertility rate, corruption and urbanization affects
long-term economic growth in Egypt. We are particularly interested in the impact of female education and fertility rate on
economic growth, but we also examine the relationship between economic growth and corruption. The results suggest that
investments in female education can reduce fertility rate with a small but significant immediate effect. As the fertility rate
increases real GDP growth decreases with a lag of 2 years. The immediate effect of greater female education on real GDP is
negative but overall it has a positive impact when lags are taken into account. Interestingly, the immediate effect of
urbanization on real GDP growth was negative and turned to be positive on the long run. Finally, corruption was found to
have a negative impact on GDP growth in Egypt over our studied time period.
February 2017
Keywords - Female Education, Fertility rate, Economic Growth, Urbanization, Corruption
JEL classification: B54, C22, O18, O11, O47