Pound floating belly-up
Experts are blaming the government for the continuing devaluation of the Egyptian pound. Sherine Abdel-Razek reports

The 9/11 heat is still on
The effects of the 11 September attacks in the US, and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, are still taking their toll on the Egyptian economy. Gamal Essam El-Din investigates

Smaller may not be better
Are small enterprises the cure for unemployment? Salah El-Amrousi questions a recent government initiative

A pasha and a bust of Keynes
As the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank kick off in Dubai this week, Margaret Garritsen de Vries remembers the Middle East and the IMF in the early years

Prescribing politics
The World Bank is now telling Arab governments that only by cleaning up their politics will their economies escape the rut of stagnant growth. Mohamed Darwish reports from Dubai