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• Economy

  Egypt’s next government faces major economic challenges

  4 July 2013, by HUSSEIN Marwa

  The coming government will face a complicated economic situation that can not be solved without political vision.
  Two and half years after the energy of Egypt’s revolution, economic challenges have only grown bigger. The economy has paid a heavy price for the political instability and (...)

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  With Europe in crisis, Egypt must reverse course

  13 July 2012, by HANIEH Adam

  International banks and financial institutions receive about US$3 billion a year in debt service (and have done so continuously for the last decade), much of this for so-called “odious” debt garnered under Mubarak.
  Teetering on the brink of debt default, the eurozone economies have once again (...)

• Economy

  Egypt’s Looming Economic Shock Doctrine

  2 April 2012, by KOUDDOUS Sharif Abdel

  Egypt is teetering on the edge of an economic crisis. Cast adrift in a deepening political quagmire over the past fourteen months, the economy has now reached a critical juncture, as the country faces the pressing challenge of financing a large budget deficit as rapidly dwindling foreign (...)

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  Eygpt: Debt Swap is not an Alternative to Cancelling Odious Debt

  17 January 2012, by Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt

  Amidst a general atmosphere of an extreme lack of transparency it has come to our knowledge that Egypt had sealed agreements with three European countries pertaining to the implementation of debt swap programs, and is currently negotiating with two further countries. The countries in question (...)

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  Egypt’s ‘Orderly Transition’? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment

  29 May 2011, by HANIEH Adam

  Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of the interim Egyptian government has been the object of intense debate in the World (...)

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  Egypt’s debt must fall with Mubarak’s regime

  16 février 2011, par DEARDEN Nick

  The debts of Egypt and Tunisia must be cancelled if the people on the streets are to take control of their economy and hold Western countries to account.
  In the best tradition of dictators, Hosni Mubarak pillaged Egypt’s economy, and leaves office with as much as $70 billion in his family’s (...)