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A Fork in the Road
The Egyptian National Railway faces a dilemma: How can it balance a budget with declining freight revenues and subsidized passenger fares? Private sector operators could improve margins, but not without a coherent business plan and a commitment to change.

By  by Rania Oteify
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April, 2005
 
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Come The Revolution
The mortgage finance system is finally showing signs of life, but even its most ardent backers in government admit there is still work to be done. The stakes are almost incalculably high: Mortgages could revolutionize not just the financial system, but also the nation’s very social fabric.
  		• Read Full Story  | By Hania Moheeb and Rania Oteify
     
    Close Up  Spinnin’ ’n Weavin’

    With one textiles-industry success story in Oriental Weavers, a handful of privatized garment makers and cotton ginners are looking to break into the big leagues. Here’s how.
  • Read Full Story  |     		By Andrew Bossone
    Close Up  A Firm Foundation
    Laila Iskandar and her Community and Institutional Development group (CID) took home the Schwab Foundation’s honor for Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Egypt. We look at how she and her fellow nominees are setting out to change the economy as we understand it today.

  • Read Full Story  |     		By Andrew Bossone
    News Focus  Towards an Informed Society

    The NTRA cuts ADSL prices in a bid to meet its ambitious targetof getting more than 500,000 users on high-speed access by 2007

  • Read Full Story  |     		By Fatima El Saadani
    Face of Business  The Merger

    Crédit Agricole-Egypt’s Adrien Pharès on his bank’s acquisition of EAB

  		• By Fatima El Saadani
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    News Focus
     
    Etisalat Wins Third License

    After a much anticipated bidding war,Etisalat’s consortium came out ahead — at an unpreced...
  		• By Fatima El Saadani
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    The Nation In Brief
     
    Nation in Brief

    A roundup of the month’s news making the headlines...
  		• By Fatima El Saadani and Andrew Bossone
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    Rumor Has It
     
    Rumor Has It

    One more cup of coffee?...
  		• By The Rumor Demon
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    A Booster Shot

    With a new chairman on board, can Vacsera put a recent corruption scandal behind it and mo...
  		•  By  Ahmed Namatalla
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      Finance & Markets
     
    Untapped Potential

    Jittery investors dominated a month that saw new M&A activity in the banking sector and a telecom rally following the award of the third mobile network operator’s license to Etisalat for a record LE 16.7 billion

  		•  By  Fatima El Saadani
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