Al-Ahram Weekly Online
31 May - 6 June 2001
Issue No.536
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A bleak prognosis
By Aziza Sami

For richer or for poorer
Parliamentary debate of the budget, the sales tax and the mortgage law provided MPs with an opportunity to question the class-bias of the government's economic policies. Gamal Essam El-Din, in the People's Assembly, reports

You say potatoes
British and Egyptian bilateral trade could flourish if some technical and logistical creases are ironed out. Sherine Nasr listens to suggestions

Cautious anticipation
As Egypt's entry in the Morgan Stanley index draws near, market players have reasons to be both hopeful and sceptical. Sherine Abdel-Razek reports


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