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Opinion|A time to take risks: Why now is the right moment to explore innovations
This spring, there was a meme on LinkedIn with a poll asking who leads digital transformation in your company. Surprisingly, the choice was not a CEO or top manager, but the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This picture perfectly illustrates how, at the beginning of the pandemic, many companies were forced to urgently implement new technologies …
Opinion| COVID-19: A relapse on women’s rights or potential for further opportunities?
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked desolation around the whole world, affecting the population’s health, social and economic status, and stretching government resources and options.
Opinion| International organisations and the desired role: Post-pandemic Foresight
If the world has become accustomed to crises throughout its history, the real difference with this one is that it has afflicted various parts of the world and all its countries without any exception.
Opinion| Thailand looks to a sustainable future: A post-COVID-19 world
Since tourism is a large part of its economy, Thailand was one of the first countries to feel the economic pressure of the pandemic. Precautions taken to stem the spread of the virus meant that travel had to be limited to only those that were essential, consequently putting tourism on hold.
Opinion| Our Mediterranean story must continue to be one of hope
First among these are how to identify such an unprecedented shock, how to measure the extent to which its effects can spill over between countries or indeed be contained, and how to quantify the uncertainty surrounding forecasts.
Opinion| Indonesia and Egypt Relations: The Past, Current and Future Projection Post COVID-19
Governments around the world are being put to test in mitigating the impact of the pandemic towards people’s health and their socio-economic lives.
Opinion| Look ahead, but do not forget to look back
This seems the more important as the worldwide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic keeps its grip on our societies and irrevocably changes our fears, expectations, and behaviour.
Opinion| Towards a post-COVID-19 world
Our economy has suffered a big blow, the current rate of job losses unmatched in recent history. Poverty spreads. Confusion sits in. Fear appears. Our own movements are limited by confinements and curfews.
Opinion| The Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt against COVID-19
Even while drafting our cooperation programme 2021-2024 we had to adapt its foreseeable results to the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on the economy and contribute to a “leave no one behind” approach.
Opinion| Building more inclusive, resilient, integrated Egypt post-COVID-19
The national economy, which expanded by 3.5% in 2020, was one of few in Africa that posted positive growth for the year. Indeed, Egypt has weathered the crisis well due to its macroeconomic stabilisation, and recent efforts to enhance health, education, and economic diversification outcomes.
Opinion| COVID-19 and the impacts on tourism
Modern tourism is closely linked to development and encompasses a growing number of new destinations. These dynamics have turned tourism into a key driver for socio-economic progress.
Opinion| Firm messages to Ethiopia
Like the nature of the river that goes through periods of flood and drought, the relationship between Cairo and Khartoum has a long history, including many years of growth and giving, and others that were scarce and dry.
Opinion| Biden revives American dream
The orders would “cancel [former President Donald] Trump’s erroneous policies”, and erase the “moral and national stigma” inherited from the previous administration, as described by the US president.
Opinion| Afreximbank’s role in promoting Africa direct investments
The $2.9bn hydroelectric power project, expected to generate more than 2,000 MW of electricity, was financed solely by African financial institutions and is under implementation by Egyptian construction companies.
Opinion| What should be our priorities now and over the next 15 years?
The 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun wrote that the past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another. This may have been true once, but times have changed. We have not only an interconnected world, but also an interdependent world. The batting of a butterfly wing in New Zealand has a consequence …
Opinion| Thank you, Daily! A brief letter from a devoted Ukrainian reader
Since then, I have been following what is happening in Egypt through the lens of this daily newspaper and its website. I have remained among its regular readers during my postings in other Arabic countries as well.
Opinion| Egypt: Post-COVID-19 Challenges
Egypt is the only Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region country to avoid contraction in fiscal year (FY) 2020/21. We expect growth to moderate from 3.6% in FY 2019/20 to 2.3% in FY 2020/21, supported by accommodative monetary and fiscal policies, and the progress in structural reforms prior to the pandemic.
Opinion| Women at the centre of COVID-19 response
And COVID-19 will continue to have far-reaching impact on the hard-won gender equality gains in all countries. No country has fully achieved gender equality, with all countries grappling with gaps in women’s equal participation in economic and public life. All countries are also struggling to address the “shadow” pandemic – violence against women.
Opinion| Closing the digital gender gap
In the lead-up to early 2020, we witnessed extensive global travel, a boom in business and the economy, and a record number of women participating in the labour force.
Opinion| Farewell to the past and welcome the future
In the history of friendly exchanges between the two ancient civilisations of China and Egypt, it is also a special year for new achievements and new glories.
Opinion| Multilateralism, cooperation key to tackling global challenges
We are living through a health crisis on a historic scale with the speed and scope of its global reach quite unprecedented. While the novel coronavirus pandemic is showing us the vulnerabilities of our societies and economies, it also clearly demonstrates the importance of adopting a global approach, multi-level cooperation, and standing together. This …
Opinion| In the face of challenges, we need to work together
The UK is leading the charge. My government wants both to build back better in our own society, and also to support other countries in their own fight. We can only do this by working together. Whether this is through bilateral engagement, or through multilateral collective effort, the ultimate solution to this problem is, and has to be, a joint one.
Opinion| Korea-Egypt partnership to continue for another 15 years
Last year, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Korea and Egypt. The friendship of the two countries has now come of age, ten years older than Daily News Egypt.
Opinion| India’s vaccine ecosystem and its role as net provider of Global Health Security
Launching the country’s vaccine drive in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), PM Modi said, “A vaccination drive at such a massive scale was never conducted before in history.”
Opinion| For a Post-COVID world assuring Human Security, leaving no one behind
However sad, I was fortunate to be comforted by many kind words from friends. I am also sincerely thankful to all the healthcare workers who are fighting at the frontline against this virus. The solidarity is more than ever needed now, in the society as well as in the international community.
Opinion| Egypt’s past resilience and future opportunities
Investors certainly seem to think so. In a world ripe with opportunity and huge demand for investment on multiple fronts, from global warming to a global health pandemic, advanced manufacturing to artificial intelligence, or from urban renewal to clean energy, Egypt stands out as a magnet for international investors.
Opinion| Aswan Forum and Africa’s pathway to sustainable peace and development post-COVID-19
In this context, Egypt is convening the second edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, which will be held virtually from 1-5 March 2021 under the motto “Shaping Africa’s New Normal: Recovering Stronger, Rebuilding Better”.
Opinion|COVID-19 and human trafficking crimes: The Egyptian Experience
The International Labor Organization (ILO) expected in April 2020 that around 25 million jobs will be lost, due to partial and total lockdown in many countries. This affected around 2.7 billion workers, which means 4 out of 5 workers worldwide[1].
Opinion| Towards the adoption of a universal declaration on creating a post-pandemic world
A vision that believes in science and scientists as a national wealth for their homelands and for the rest of the world.
Opinion| COVID-19: A reset to a ‘Business-as-Usual’ Paradigm
This impact was felt by all, developing and developed countries alike. Multiple strategies were put into practice against a common enemy, yet the world, after over a year, remains powerless in redressing the brunt it has brought upon us.