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planning programs, which could help in overcoming s uch socio-
economic problems.
She added that the largest changes in the rate of p overty occurred
in the period from 2008 to 2011 and from 2015 to 20 17, and
these two periods were accompanied by a significant increase in
prices. In the first period, there were many crises such as the
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floatation of the Egyptian pound, prices doubled by about 65%,
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and the poverty rate increased by about 4.7%, due t o the family ’s
inability to keep pace with the wave of rising price s and meeting
its basic needs, which ultimately made the poverty r ate reach
32.5%, in addition to the rise of some families By adapting itself
to the current circumstances by sending its childre n to the labor
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jobs. Despite the economic programs and efforts made by the
state, such as the launch of social solidarity progr ams, the
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And about our desire to know to whom Prof. Heba Al-Leithy poverty rate is still high.
is grateful, she answered that after her return from England
Regarding her supremacy ’s opinion on the contribution of the
and obtaining a PhD, she was working in the field of Pure
Corona crisis to the rise in poverty rates, she repl ied explaining
statistics, but thanks to Dr. Hanaa Khair El-Din, she went to
that the poverty rate currently measured is the pov erty rate index
work on applied statistics, questionnaires and surveys, which
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until March 2020, so it concerns the period before the Corona
made her completely transform in terms of studying living
crisis, as mobilization and census surveys stopped since the
standards, poverty and education in Egypt. This is due to her
beginning of the crisis. But they were able to condu ct some
great gratitude to Dr. Hana.
Surveys by phone and 77% of households say that their income
has decreased due to the crisis; some of them said that the
Because of Prof. Heba Al-Leithy' s name has always been
number of their working hours decreased, or that th ey worked
linked to poverty studies, she told us more about her role in
intermittently, while others said that they were co mpletely
the Poverty Report 2020 and the reduction in poverty rates,
suspended from work and that their activity had comp letely
explaining that she began with Dr. Hanaa Khair El-Din since
stopped.
1990 in using income, expenditure and livelihood
measurements and surveys to measure the level of poverty,
In the context of the question about the policies followed to
and they found that the opportunity is provided in order to use
overcome the Corona crisis, and how to overcome it without
the tables and data of these surveys and measures to draw out
affecting poverty rates, Dr. Heba Ali emphasized that what
poverty studies. With her clarification of what is known as
we currently suffer from high poverty rates is not only due to
"material poverty", which is the lack of sufficient material
the Corona crisis, but rather is the result of the accumulation
resources to meet the basic needs of the family. And then, the
of many events in the pre-crisis period. The Corona crisis has
emergence of what is known as "multidimensional poverty"
clarified and highlighted the problems that cause poverty as
and includes the human inability to obtain good education,
well as those resulting from it, such as the absence of
good health or good sanitation.
insurance. Her supremacy stated, according to Dr. "Judah
Abdel Khaleq", that we should not rely on the rentier
From her point of view, she believes that “material poverty ”
economy in Egypt, but we must rely on the productive
and “multidimensional poverty ” are interrelated, and each
economy, because the rentier economy cannot be controlled
affects the other. The lack of materialism leads to the
when it occurs. Crises, since it depends on external sources,
disappearance of education, job opportunities, health,
so from her point of view, we will be more successful and
sanitation and others, and vice versa. Likewise, poverty is
safe in overcoming the Corona crisis only if our economy is
multidimensional, which has causes other than material
more productive than rentier. She added that while talking
poverty, so it is not a momentary measure. Therefore, when
about ways to overcome the problem of poverty in general,
setting policies, the government should take into account the
we must work on economic growth, developing formal
concepts of poverty, for example, there are those who learn
employers, creating decent job opportunities, providing social
and find no job opportunity later on and there are those who
and health insurance, insurance of agricultural crops and other
do not learn and in turn add a new burden on the job market.
social and sustainable development strategies.
She also mentioned in her talk about the relationship between
the number of family members and the rate of poverty, which
Finally, upon reaching advice that Dr. Heba would lik e to present
considers their connection a "cause and effect." When the
to students of the Faculty of Economics and Politic al Science,
number of family members increases, the percentage of
she emphasized the necessity of defining our goals and working
poverty increases with it, bearing in mind that providing
with sincerity and dedication to fulfill our duties t owards
family planning methods are not the best and only solution to
ourselves and towards our country, and to avoid the tyranny of
this problem. For example, poverty is a reason why many
the material side on our lives, in addition to the ne cessity of
children are not educated, and as a result they grow up and do
taking care of social relations and avoiding differ ences of
not find suitable job opportunities, and thus the cycle of
opinion and she stressed the quality of sincerity t hat always
poverty continues in society. All this is due to the intellectual
characterizes all who belong to the Faculty of Econo mics and
poverty of families who resort to having the largest number of
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children in order to send them to the labor market. Her
supremacy suggested that families should be provided with
social and health insurance, in addition to creating family
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