Panacea or nostrum?
Going beyond the hype generated by the latest draft mortgage law, Mahmoud Fahmi assesses whether the proposed legislation would actually make housing more accessible to people with limited incomes and ease the real estate market depression

Good to the last drop
2001 is set to be a busy year for Egypt's petroleum sector. Sherine Nasr looks at some recent developments and plans for the future

A year in the market
2000 was an eventful, but difficult year for the bourse. Sherine Abdel Razek charts the ups and downs

The view from within
Plotting a global course
The Egyptian economy is facing immense difficulties. To reverse course, the government must go beyond the traditional approach of promoting exports and should regard the success of Egyptian firms in the global economy as the most meaningful test of its policies --read on--

The drive to use IT
Aly Faramawy, general manager of Microsoft Egypt, spoke to Niveen Wahish on the work facing Egypt in the development of a thriving information technology sector

Cotton revisited
ONCE Egypt's main crop, the dethroned king cotton will be getting more attention from the government during the next cultivation season --read on--

Government Business