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Items by Yahya Hamid
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Egypt: How Sisi is running a pyramid scheme
In a powerful analysis released by the Project On Middle East Democracy earlier this month, analyst Robert Springborg described Egypt as a “beggar state” that behaves as though it were an “oil-rich rentier state like Saudi Arabia or a successful mercantile one like China, though Egypt is neither”. He further warns of striking similarities with...
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The economic collapse in Egypt
All economic indicators in Egypt point to the fact that we have begun the phase of a real economic collapse in Egypt, which Egypt will pay for for many years to come and which will have an impact on the largest proportion of its people. The indicators from the...