Jaime Alfonso Roche

Consultant, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank RSS This page in: Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez is a consultant in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank. His research focuses on trade, poverty, and jobs. He is also an economist at the Mexican Central Bank, conducting macroeconomic analysis for the support of monetary policy committees.

Egypt continues to struggle with significant labor market problems — notably, low real wages, low female labor force participation (FLFP), and high informality. The possibility that the liberalization strategy pursued by the government in the last decades might either impose or reinforce harmful effects on local labor markets has been cited as a concern. Higher imports could affect labor markets in at least two ways.

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