My apologies if this has been posted onsite elsewhere, I looked, and didn't see anything. I found this article to be very interesting. Bread riots? In a supposedly modern Arab country? Amazing.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0606/p04s05-wome.html
Wow, and government interference hasn't solved the problem. Go figure.
mormonchess:http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0606/p04s05-wome.html
"Egyptians are... caught in a storm of stagnant wages, rising global food prices, rampant corruption, and a quickly advancing inflation rate that hit 16.4 percent in May"
...why doesn't the Egyptian government do something about all this?
The article reminds me of the other African calamity bob - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe - who earlier this year sent police into grocery stores ordering retailers to slash their prices. Don't think he managed to curb inflation.
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