Al-Ahram Weekly Online
7 - 13 March 2002
Issue No.576
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Price fiesta
The recent flux in economic policies has sent prices sharply up. Sherine Nasr looks at why prices have started to rise and what this has done to local consumers

Gas concerns
LNG was all the rage at a conference on natural gas held in Cairo last week. Jasper Thornton reports

Stumbling along
Deprived of a long-awaited impetus on the macro-economic level, the market is still in the doldrums. Sherine Abdel-Razek reports

Health care trip-up
Well into its second year of being debated at the people's assembly the draft intellectual property rights law is still a hot potato. Niveen Wahish reports

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