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| Articles from El Ahram Weekly Growing out of trouble
Egyptian
e-knowledge - Nader Habib April 2009 Achieving high growth rates
is the only way
Egypt can fight the twin tests of an ever-increasing population and
spiralling unemployment rates, Minister of Economic Development Osman
Mohamed Osman tells Mona El-Fiqi December 2009
Market report December 2009 The
way forward
Dubai's
debt woes
The Arab region, Egypt
included, has untapped potential just waiting to be exploited, Sherine
Nasr reports - December 2009
Dubai's financial crisis
caused havoc to stock markets worldwide, and Egypt is no exception, Sherine
Nasr reports - December 2009
A
place to invest
Is Africa the coming haven
for private equity funds? Experts chart the potentials and hurdles, Sherine
Nasr reports - November 2009
A
strategic alliance
Economic cooperation between
China and Africa is gaining ground, Sherine Nasr
reports from Sharm El-Sheikh - November 2009
Recession
brings inflation?
One year after the peek of the
international financial crisis that
pushed prices down worldwide, Egypt seems to be grappling with
inflation. Mona El-Fiqi investigates why - October
2009
Take the money
Big donors are lining up to
fund small and medium sized region-focussed enterprises, Mona
El-Fiqi reports - October 2009
Sticky
business
Figures released by the oil
industry may reveal some controversial facts, Sherine Nasr
reports - September 2009
Relief
for now
Following the global financial
meltdown of a year ago, experts are now
breathing a sigh of relief for having been spared the worst. What was a
doomsday scenario has turned into optimism on the assumption that
things will not get any worse. Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry
Rachid Mohamed Rachid speaks to Niveen Wahish about
the road the country needs to take to get its growth rate back up to
job-generating levels - September 2009
More
taxes still
The government is leaving no
stone unturned in its quest to raise revenues. Niveen Wahish
examines the most recent addition to the tax system: the real estate
tax - August 2009
Recommendations
for USAID
Sayed Attia
sheds light on the role played by USAID in the development process in
Egypt - August 2009
Feeling
the pinch
Rice exporters are harshly
affected by a government decision to double export duties, Eman
Youssef reports - August 2009
A
true picture of business
Building a business-enabling
environment depends on knowing what challenges businessmen face, Mona
El-Fiqi reports - July 2009
Businessmen
reject anti-monopoly bill
Prominent businessmen
intervened just one day ahead of the end of the
parliamentary session to delay a legislative amendment aimed at
toughening penalties on monopolistic practices, Gamal Essam
El-Din reports - July 2009
Big
efforts for small industries
Government bodies concerned
with small enterprises joined forces with
international agencies to give the SMEs sector in Egypt a boost - July
2009
Parliament
takes stock
Economic and fiscal laws
dominated the legislative agenda of the
2008-2009 parliamentary sessions that drew to a close last week, Gamal
Essam El-Din reports - June 2009
More
work needed
While some positive moves
have been made, Egypt's budget for 2009-2010 leaves some demands unmet,
writes Abdel-Fattah El-Gibali - June 2009
Best
show in Old Vic
The 13th COMESA summit in
Zimbabwe is aimed at establishing a customs
union and facilitating African economic integration, writes Gamal
Nkrumah - June 2009
'The
client is now the boss'
Reluctant to deal with the
customs authority? Think again. Sherine Nasr finds
out that foreign trade's worst enemy is now transforming itself into
its best friend - May 2009
Better
days ahead
A nationwide attempt to
create more and better jobs for young people in Egypt is gaining
momentum, Nesmahar Sayed reports - May 2009
Food
security is national security
Nader Noureddin
argues that Egypt needs a new healthy agricultural policy that
prioritises poverty reduction and food security - May 2009
Betting
on infrastructure
Infrastructure projects are
bringing the Union for the Mediterranean closer together, Sherine
Shoukry reports - May 2009
Wheat
troubles
Angered by wheat procurement
prices for this year, more wheat growers
are expected to withdraw from the market the coming season, reports Sherine
Nasr - April 2009
Privitising Egyptian gas/oil sector? - Sherine Nasr March 2009 2009-2010 budget to Parliament - Niveen Wahish March 2009 Remittances and the world financial crisis - Nesmahar Sayed March 2009 Growth predicted to be 3.5% in 2009 - Niveen Wahish February 2009 Estimating the Eyptian economic slowdown - Niveen Wahish February 2009 The latest chapter in the saga of gas exports to Israel - Amr Kamal Hamouda Jan 2009 Not at the WTO altar - Niveen Wahish January 2009 Innovate or bust - Sherine Nasr December 2008 The third wave of entrepreneurship - Carl Schramm November 2008 Gas exports to Israel - Sherine Nasr November 2008 Egyptian exports/imports and the economic slowdown - Mona El-Fiqi October 2008 Egypt does it again: top performer in economic reform - Samir Radwan September 2008 Egypt leading regional economic reform - Sherine Nasr September 2008 Egypt tops southern Mediterranean economic reform - Mona El-Fiqi September 2008 The cement monopoloy - Mona El-Fiqi August 2008 On Egyptian inflation since the 1990s - Mona El-Fiqi August 2008 Less than minimum wage for some government jobs - Mona El-Fiqi July 2008 The cost of soaring grain prices to the world's poor - Sherine Nasr July 2008 Unemployment amongst educated youth - Sherine Nasr July 2008 Protecting social welfare - Sherine Abdel-Razek June 2008 The 2008-2009 budget - Sherine Abdel-Razek June 2008 Whither Africa's bounty? - Rehab Ahmed June 2008 USAID in Upper Egypt - Mohamed El-Sayed May 2008 Promising economic outlook offsetting explosive politics - Sherine Abdel-Razek May 2008 US has no free trade agreement with Egypt - Ashraf Swelam May 2008 El Ahram Weekly on Egyptian economics, politics, society and culture - Nader Noureddin April 2008 The Price of oil - Hussein Abdallah April 2008 Small and medium sized business sector - Sherine Nasr January 2008 Agrarian reform - Serene Assir January 2008 The future of Egypt's freshwater resources - Rehab Sayed Ahmed January 2008 Commodity shortages (rice) - January 2008 Unrest over basic commodity prices - Mohamed El-Sayed January 2008 Stressed out about subsidies - Reem Leila January 2008 The future of commodity subsidies - Mona El-Fiqi January 2008 Globalisation and safety nets for the poor - Gamal Essam El-Din January 2008 Renewable energy issues - Sherine Nasr January 2008 Economic report card - December 2007 The year in review - Assem El-Kersh December 2007 The year in review - Hassan Nafaa December 2007 Cairo University's 100th Anniversary - Mursi Saad El-Din December 2007 Egyptain Politics Articles from El Ahram Weekly Analyse
that
Scholars are
retreading the same old ground, calling for
democratisation and human rights in the Arab world without effectively
explaining their absence, writes Amr Hamzawy -
November 2009
Dissenting brothers
The Muslim Brotherhood's very public leadership spat betrays major
structural weaknesses, writes Khalil El-Anani
November 2009
This
great challenge
Media
in the service of the nation is the core mission of Al-Ahram and
the watchword to safeguard in an era founded on constant change, writes
Abdel-Moneim Said, Al-Ahram's new chairman of
the board - July 2009
Beyond
politics
Increasingly, people are being bought and sold in the streets of our
cities, writes Ramzy Baroud June 2009
Growing
in crisis
Caught
in two minds
Political
Islamists across the region face challenges in terms of
accessing public life, but signs are that the challenges are allowing
them to mature, writes Amr Hamzawi May 2009
The Muslim
Brotherhood's reaction to the Hizbullah controversy reveals
that until now the movement is split in its strategic outlook between
two opposing political directions, writes Amr Hamzaw
April 2009
Is
business a liberalising force?
The
ascendance of a business class in other parts of the world has
fostered democracy. Can the same happen in the Arab world, asks Amr
Hamzawy February 2009
For
citizen and country
Egypt's ruling party is still out of touch, oblivious to the demands
and opposed to the rights of the people, writes Khalil
El-Anani October 2008
In
Focus: Sea change at the top
Egypt
will ricochet from disaster to disaster until it accepts that the
poor are not a problem, but part of the solution, writes Galal
Nassar - October 2008
The
popular pawn
Fixing
the Gaza crossing (without much American help) - January
2008Future options for the Muslim
Brotherhood will largely depend on how
the prevailing regime assesses and tries to secure its own position,
writes Ammar Ali Hassan February 2008
A boy's life in the Egyptian gulags and since - Sahar El-Bahr January 2008 EU criticism of Egyptian human rights record - Gihan Shahine 2008 Towards a freer press - Gamal Essam El-Din 2008 Independence of the judiciary - Mona El-Nahhas 2008 The year in review - Assem El-Kersh December 2007 The year in review - Hassan Nafaa December 2007 The human rights record - Gamal Nkrumah 2007 Tax workers strike - Serene Assir 2007 Students strike - Reem Leila 2007 On the Nazif government - Gamal Essam El-Din 2007 Egyptian Health Issues Articles from El Ahram Weekly Bird flu - Reem Leila 2008 Bird flu - Reem Leila 2008 |