{"id":599578,"date":"2019-01-03T04:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/01\/03\/poverty-rate-in-rural-upper-egypt-drops-10\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T04:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:45:57","slug":"poverty-rate-in-rural-upper-egypt-drops-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/01\/03\/poverty-rate-in-rural-upper-egypt-drops-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty rate in rural Upper Egypt drops 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Poverty in rural Upper Egypt may have fallen sharply<\/b>, a potential boon for supporters of the Sisi administration\u2019s economic policies. The poverty rate in rural Upper Egypt could have fallen as much as 10 percentage points (or nearly 18%) to 47% in 2018 from 57% three years ago, according to an unnamed government source speaking with the domestic press<\/a> about the preliminary results of a state-commissioned income and expenditure survey.<\/p>\n

The story leaves plenty unclear<\/b>, starting with the details of the reported study, the fact that the alleged results are preliminary. Heck, the report doesn\u2019t even make clear whose definition of poverty the survey is using. But if rural poverty in Upper Egypt \u2014 long one of the most stubborn indicators of progress in the war on poverty \u2014 is declining, the story bears watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poverty in rural Upper Egypt may have fallen sharply, a potential boon for supporters of the Sisi administration\u2019s economic policies. 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