Egypt's 2004 human development report makes clear that administrative, fiscal and political decentralisation provide the true path to comprehensive civil service reform. Mona El-Fiqi reports

A prosperous global village or a world deeply split between dominant haves and subaltern have-nots? The mixed bag of capitalist globalisation was in sharp focus last week, as Cairo hosted two prominent experts on the subject. Al-Ahram Weekly sounded them out on their views