Al-Ahram Weekly Online
26 July - 1 August 2001
Issue No.544
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Tick tock
By Aziza Sami

Too little, too late?
The pound's devaluation against the dollar has caused the much-coveted green notes to be in even shorter supply. Niveen Wahish and Sherine Abdel-Razek examine the impact of the move on the market

Sales tax blues
Although merchants have at last come to terms with the sales tax, trading is at all- time low and consumers might finally be bearing the brunt. Mona El-Fiqi reports

Reducing the burden
Egyptian industrialists claim to know the secret to increasing the country's exports. Shaimaa Labib was there when they tried to enlist the support of the Customs Authority

A lethal cocktail
The market took a beating last week due to negative internal and external factors, Al-Ahram Weekly surveys the damage


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