The business community is happy about the cancellation of decree 506, which mandated that 75 per cent of foreign currency earnings be placed in Egyptian banks. Mona El-Fiqi reports

The most powerful force for reducing poverty is economic growth, combined with strong participation from the poor. Gamal Nkrumah reports from an African development conference that was recently held in Alexandria

Will Egypt finally join the international Knowledge Economy? Sherine El-Madany listens in on a recent seminar

In an exclusive interview, World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon spoke to Sherine Abdel-Razek about poverty, and what appears to be an official change of heart towards some of the bank's previously prescribed reform policies

Incentives to both investors and residents will hopefully bring more life to Egypt's new cities, Sherine Nasr writes

Taher Helmy explains how a new philosophy of governance can extract Egypt from its current state of stagnation