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Articles of the author Salah El Amrousi
Beyond QIZ
Salah El-Amrousi argues that boosting exports needs more than just a QIZ protocol The October 2005 report by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Industry shows that all the hype about on has been misleading. You may recall that the government (...)

19 - 01 - 2006
Coaxing FDI
Deregulation alone does not lure foreign direct investment, argues Salah El-Amrousi Press reports have been cropping up of a surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) to Egypt. In the fiscal year 2004/05 we are told that FDI climbed to $3.9 billion, (...)

01 - 12 - 2005
Campaigning for the economy
Salah El-Amrousi assesses the economic platforms presented by the Ghad, Wafd and NDP parties Given this country's record of unemployment and inflation, the economy seems to be just as important to the public as democracy and political reform. So (...)

08 - 09 - 2005
Revolution by the rich
Salah El-Amrousi says the new tax law is biased against the poor The government has staged a tax reform with all the trappings of a media fanfare. The reform, we're told, will allay the tax burden for all classes of society. It would increase tax (...)

04 - 08 - 2005
A tax revolution?
Salah El-Amrousi sees pitfalls in the new income tax law Following two months of intermittent debate, the People's Assembly has approved the new law for income taxes. Aside from minor re- wording, the assembly approved the law as it was presented by (...)

30 - 06 - 2005
QIZ mythology
Salah El-Amrousi argues that Egypt's economic problems are too big for QIZ to tackle alone Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) have been trumpeted as a panacea. We have been told that they will send exports soaring and catapulting the economy into (...)

19 - 05 - 2005
QIZ politics
Salah El-Amrousi argues that politics lie at the heart of the agreement establishing Qualified Industrial Zones in Egypt The agreement on Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) had generated much controversy even before it was signed on 14 December 2004. (...)

07 - 04 - 2005
Let's get structural
Salah El-Amrousi wonders just how much trade liberalisation can help exports Not one of the recent NDP Congress's working papers addresses export strategy, although we have been told for years that this strategy is a matter of "life or death". Not (...)

25 - 11 - 2004
Tariff reduction and neo-liberal propaganda
Tariff reductions have repeatedly failed to bring about the development and industrialisation that developing countries need. Salah El-Amrousi argues that we should learn from experience The recent tariff reduction was simply another step down (...)

07 - 10 - 2004
Egypt's turn
The merger between the industry and foreign trade ministries is not enough. Salah El-Amrousi urges a more interventionist approach The ministries of industry and foreign trade were merged in the recent cabinet reshuffle. The move is reminiscent of (...)

26 - 08 - 2004
FDI dilemmas
Salah El-Amrousi argues that the free flow of foreign capital is not necessary for economic development Whenever neo-liberals, in Egypt or elsewhere, speak of foreign direct investment (FDI), they tend to make two arguments. The first is that FDI is (...)

27 - 05 - 2004
Thwarting progress
Salah El-Amrousi questions the causal relationship between economic freedom and economic development The 2003 Index of Economic Freedom (IEF), released by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, claims to have the final say in what (...)

01 - 04 - 2004
Optic illusions?
Do the latest figures on the Egyptian economy herald recovery or signal crisis? asks Salah El-Amrousi Official statements and figures have painted a rosy picture of the Egyptian economy, particularly concerning its relations with the international (...)

02 - 10 - 2003
Modest modernisation
The current government plans for Egyptian industry are much more about renovation than modernisation, writes Salah El-Amrousi Addressing a roundtable seminar earlier this year on the state of industrial development, former Minister of Industry (...)

28 - 08 - 2003
A shift of interest
High interest rates create runaway debtors and offer little help to the economy, argues Salah El-Amrousi* The bad loans crisis has brought to the fore the question of interest rates. Many have blamed high interest rates, among other things, for the (...)

24 - 10 - 2002
Sliding into the fourth world
Industrialisation in the Arab world has fallen way behind other developing countries. This is the cause of the region's chronic underdevelopment, writes Salah El-Amrousi Industrial development in the Arab world has been sluggish. Indeed, it is (...)

25 - 07 - 2002
Reining capital in
Egypt is liberalising trade, but, Salah El-Amrousy argues, it does not need to liberalise capital movements One of the ironies of monetary policy in Egypt is that, at a time when we are complaining of foreign exchange shortages and griping over the (...)

21 - 03 - 2002
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