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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 21 - 27 June 2001 Issue No.539
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USAID in Egypt: 25 years

BACK WITH A VENGEANCE: It's June '74, and US President Richard Nixon (facing disgrace and impeachment charges at home) is given a hero's welcome in Cairo. Under the leadership of Anwar El-Sadat, the region's closest Soviet ally was making a dramatic shift in direction, and the people seemed to enthusiastically welcome it. The so-called 'American era' was launched with great fanfare and high expectations.. --read on--

From fanfare to phase-out
No aspect of bilateral economic relations inspires as much controversy, or is subject to such intense political scrutiny in both Egypt and the US, as the $24 billion in economic assistance extended by the US Agency for International Development to Egypt over the past quarter of a century..--read on--

Perspective	Opinion
Willard J. Pearson speaks to the Weekly USAID in Parliament Top billing: The infrastructure & the Commodity Import Programme The social aspects: USAID's role in health and population; civil society development, education; the environment Pushing privatisation: Impact on industry, agriculture, the money market Charts	Galal Amin: The price to pay
	Shafiq Gabr: Give and take
	Ray Bush: Time to go
	Mustafa Kamel El-Sayed: What have we done with US aid?
	Adel Beshai: Eye on the future
	Gouda Abdel-Khalek: Untangling the strings of aid

Trade-offs and concrete No rubber stamp The big facelift Buying American Time for self-reliance? Reluctant grassroots Learning priorities Greenbacks for a greener Egypt On the block A mechanised pastoral Pushing privatisation Small, but promising Charts
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