The next Sim City
Do the US administration's grand plans for Iraq include rebuilding the country's devastated economy? John Sfakianakis asks

Reaching out to the south
Development and job creation efforts in Assiut have borne fruit. Sherine Nasr tours the southern governorate with USAID

No concrete agreement
A new pricing agreement concluded earlier this week between local cement producers is unlikely to succeed if problems are not addressed at the root. Sherine Abdel-Razek reports

Pushing cotton ahead
Egypt's cotton sector has come a long way since its liberalisation eight years ago, but it has yet to strengthen its international market position. Niveen Wahish investigates

Briefs
CENTRAL Bank of Egypt (CBE) governor, Mahmoud Abul-Oyoun, is sounding out the market for feedback on the general framework of the CBE's proposed future monetary policy. This week, he met with businessmen and economists at the Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies, reports Niveen Wahish