Egypt, inc.
In her first encounter with a joint business association, minister of state for foreign affairs, Fayza Abul-Naga, pitched Egypt's investment prospects to British and Egyptian executives. Soha Abdelaty reports

Driving to prosperity
The Indian economy is growing fast and Egypt is keen to get in on the act. Eman Youssef reports on a cooperation framework recently signed between the two countries' auto component industries

Nine-tenths of the law
Egypt's intellectual property rights law is in its final stages. Niveen Wahish finds out from a recent conference when the law will see light of day, and looks at worries that it will raise the price of medicine

Battling with the hydra
Why, despite a plethora of poverty-reduction programmes, dollops of aid and donors galore, are so many Egyptians poor? In an exclusive interview, UNDP Resident Representative Antonio Vigilante talks to Gihan Shahine about the challenges of reducing poverty

'A plan for the people'
In the Egyptian countryside, a novel approach aims to improve the lives of the nation's most destitute. It also reveals much about how well the Egyptian government and its foreign partners work together. Jasper Thornton writes

A new slant
John Sawers, British ambassador to Cairo, told Al-Ahram Weekly how Britain's aid programme is marching to a different drum

Poverty's outer face
How poor is poor? Yasmine El-Rashidi discovers that poverty is actually a relative state

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