Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
18 - 24 November 1999
Issue No. 456
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Bitter harvest for 'sweetest' sugar
Sugar As international prices plummet, production costs rise and import barriers come crashing down, the markets are flooded with inferior goods and the livelihoods of thousands of Upper Egyptian cane farmers are put at risk. Fatemah Farag extracts the bitter facts about the struggle for Egypt's sugar industry

Ill-prepared to reap results
Despite generally positive press coverage, the Egyptian Mission of 100 to the UK last week was undermined by a lack of preparation, writes Amer Sultan from London

Better and better
The commercial counsellor sounds bullish about UK investments. He spoke to Mona El Fiqi


No no to Mexico
Comparisons between Egypt's dollar crunch and the origins of the Mexican crisis in the early nineties do not hold water, argues Khaled Sherif
Prescribing protection
Legislation to protect intellectual property rights moves into the spotlight with the imminent application of TRIPS, writes Niveen Wahish
Reasons to be cheerful
October revealed a welcome degree of market buoyancy, Sherine Abdel-Razek reports
More equitable growth
Commodity export-dependent African nations talk shop in Cairo. Dina Ezzat listens in

  • Iranian-Egyptian business grows
  • Third generation reforms
  • Aid and investment

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