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		20 - 26 May 2004 Issue No. 691 Features	Current issue Previous issue Site map
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

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Matters of ration

Subsidised food commodities are back to the market, but are the benefits really being felt by the impoverished millions? Dena Rashed searches for the answer

Grow old, get poor

Reem Leila reports on those who are falling through the cracks of Egypt's social insurance and pension systems

Still waiting

Long queues and frustrating paperwork are endemic to the nation's pension system. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates two desperate attempts at modernisation

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