Sold but not forgotten
Does the public's interest in state-owned assets end with their privatisation? Gamal Essam El-Din listens in as MPs debate the fate of a privatised foodstuffs company

Computers for all
ACITEX, the ninth Al-Ahram Computer and Information Technology Exhibition, was held last week at the Cairo International Conference Centre in Nasr City, reports Eman Youssef. With the participation of 150 companies, the exhibition was inaugurated by Ahmed Nazif, minister of communication and information technology. --read on--

Attacking poverty
THE EGYPTIAN Centre for Economic Studies (ECES) last week discussed some of the conclusions reached in the World Development Report. Mona El-Fiqi reports on the debate.

The view from within
No Egyptian gas for Israel
By Sameh Fahmi

D-8 in search of an identity
THE ECONOMIC group of eight developing Muslim countries, known as the D-8, is scheduled to hold its annual summit on 25 February in Cairo. As Dina Ezzat writes, the youthful organisation has much work to do in forging its identity.

Digestive lull
Thin transactions, weak foreign interest and profit-taking stripped the market of its recent gains, reports Sherine Abdel Razek

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