The Extent to Which Public Investment Spending Policies and Social Protection Programs Contribute to Targeting Poverty as One of the Egyptian National Security Issues in Light of Egypt’s Vision 2030

Reducing poverty rates is one of the main goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the goals and vision of the Egyptian state (2030). Despite the efforts made to confront poverty in Egypt in general and the Egyptian countryside in particular, the poverty rate is constantly increasing despite the Egyptian government's adoption of many protection programs. Social, and there is no doubt that the issue of poverty has serious repercussions on Egyptian national security. The study attempted to identify the multiple concepts of poverty and its indicators, the most important causes and factors for the increase in the severity of poverty in Egypt during the study period, and to propose many mechanisms to target poverty. The study concluded that by increasing the proportion of public investment spending, especially (infrastructure infrastructure, education, health) and overcoming obstacles facing the private industrial sector and providing a real investment climate that depends primarily on confronting and following up on production problems and enhancing quality education opportunities by raising the level of current educational services, supporting technological education and artificial intelligence applications, and creating more social program packages that help provide Some degree of social protection for the poor could improve poverty targeting indicators in Egypt.