Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/18/2022 12:38:00 PM
Retail controls, market monitoring, and a ban on the export of strategic commodities are some of the measures being taken to reign in inflation.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/16/2022 4:58:25 PM
Egypt’s cabinet decided on Wednesday to grant wheat farmers an incentive of EGP 65 for each ardeb (1 ardeb is equivalent to 150kg) to encourage them to increase the quantities they sell to the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/15/2022 10:30:00 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has directed the government to enforce price controls for unsubsidised bread nationwide to curb recent price hikes, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement on Tuesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/15/2022 7:00:00 AM
The United Nations chief warned Monday that Russia's war on Ukraine is holding ‘a sword of Damocles’ over the global economy, especially poor developing countries that face skyrocketing food, fuel and fertilizer prices and are now seeing their breadbasket ‘being bombed’.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/8/2022 9:38:11 PM
Two weeks after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the world, including Egypt, is reckoning up its economic losses from the conflict. In addition to an uncertainty-induced slowing down of investments, disrupted trade, and an outflow of hot money, the world is sharing a common threat – runaway inflation.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/7/2022 12:42:15 PM
The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region known as the ``breadbasket of the world.''
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/25/2022 9:48:00 PM
The cabinet is seeking to rationalise the bread subsidy system, halt infringements on agricultural land, and reform rental laws.
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World
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Africa
2/17/2022 5:08:47 PM
The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/16/2022 9:24:53 PM
The Egyptian government will raise the price of subsidised bread loaves – sold at 5 piastres for over 30 years – but will make sure that the neediest and most marginalised citizens are not affected, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
2/11/2022 7:51:00 PM
Experts are betting that the Egyptian economy can handle the aftermath of the pandemic, write Niveen Wahish and Sherine Abdel-Razek.
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Egypt
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Society
2/10/2022 5:39:16 PM
Egypt will stop providing all forms of state subsidies, including subsidised bread, rationing system, and fertilisers to those constructing new buildings illegally on farmland, in a new bid to put a brake on the decades-old issue, the cabinet stated.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/1/2022 10:46:41 PM
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves are in excellent shape, allowing the government room to manoeuvre soaring global prices, experts tell Ahmed Abdel-Hafez
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/26/2021 10:51:00 AM
Whether bread subsidies should be reduced, and by how much, is provoking heated debate in political circles
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Egypt
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Politics
8/21/2021 7:37:03 PM
Tagammu MPs said lifting bread subsidies is a high sensitive step that should come only after a national dialogue
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/14/2021 3:12:00 PM
The price of subsidised bread is slated to increase for the first time in decades
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Egypt
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Politics
8/3/2021 10:21:22 PM
Egypt's supply ministry spokesman Ahmed Kamal said the study’s results will be submitted to the Cabinet, once completed, to review and issue a final decision
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Egypt
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Politics
8/3/2021 9:48:17 AM
The president's remarks came during the inauguration ceremony of Silo Foods, the mega food industries complex, which will provide schools meals for around 13 million students nationwide
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World
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Region
7/13/2021 9:37:43 AM
Bread has become more expensive and petrol scarce, while at home and work Lebanese swelter during increasingly long power cuts
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World
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Region
7/11/2021 2:40:20 PM
Damascus has repeatedly raised fuel prices in recent years to tackle a financial crunch sparked by the country's decade-long civil war and compounded by a spate of Western sanctions.
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World
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Region
7/10/2021 3:09:59 PM
For the seventh time in a year, Lebanon's economy ministry announced on Saturday new prices for bread, slowly removing subsidies as the country sinks deeper into a dire economic and political crisis
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