Amr Kamal Hamouda explores the complexities with which the issue of selling gas to Israel is laden

Following the global financial meltdown of a year ago, experts are now breathing a sigh of relief for having been spared the worst. What was a doomsday scenario has turned into optimism on the assumption that things will not get any worse. Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid speaks to Niveen Wahish about the road the country needs to take to get its growth rate back up to job-generating levels

Emerging economies' meagre IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) allocations are reflective of the shortcomings of the IMF system