Egypt's decade-long and until now successful economic reform programme is beginning to look more like a hesitant shuffle than a forward march. The ageing government leading it seems to have paused for breath. At the same time, Egypt's five-thousand-year tradition of highly centralised and authoritarian rule, based in the past half century on an all-powerful presidency underpinned by the army, is showing some signs of mutation but none of renewal....more
Egypt's decade-long and until now successful economic reform programme is beginning to look more like a hesitant shuffle than a forward march. The ageing government leading it seems to have paused for breath. At the same time, Egypt's five-thousand-year tradition of highly centralised and authoritarian rule, based in the past half century on an all-powerful presidency underpinned by the army, is showing some signs of mutation but none of renewal....
