Wake-up call for development
The Arab Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society, United Nations Development Programme & Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, New York: 2003. pp210

Vodafone rings off 2003 on a high
Vodafone Egypt's stock market listing and sale of shares to Telecom Egypt may be the one piece of good news to ring out the old year, writes Niveen Wahish

The year the pound sank
What started off as a floatation soon dragged the pound down to unprecedented levels, and pushed the economy into intensive care. Al-Ahram Weekly scans the ramifications of devaluation in 2003

2003 in the economy:
Compiled by Gamal Essam El-Din