Getting the priorities right
The government is congratulating itself on a leaner budget, and seems hopeful that a bit of spending may nudge the economy out of recession. But Keynesian-style programmes are not easy, warns Abdel-Fattah El-Gebali

Parrying with parity
Argentina has defeated hyper-inflation by adhering to parity with the dollar, but this was a double-edged sword. Salah El-Amrusi blames neo-liberalism for the ordeal

Dirge for a dog?
Activists and specialists furiously debate the proposed Unified Labour Law. But as Fatemah Farag finds out, on the shop-floor, it all seems much ado about nothing

Labour pains
Ragui Asaad asks why it has taken so long to get the labour law into parliament.

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