#Egypt: Egypt is too big to fail? Ben Fishman is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and a member of the Program on Arab Politics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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🗓️ 3 February 2023
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#Egypt: Egypt is too big to fail? Ben Fishman is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and a member of the Program on Arab Politics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/egypts-economic-freefall-provides-opening-us-assistance-and-leverage
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| 0:57.0 | The question economy is an downward spiral. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, there's the pandemic. |
| 1:01.0 | Yes, there's worldwide inflation. |
| 1:03.0 | But then what is the driver for this falling of the economy? |
| 1:09.0 | What is to be done? Good evening to you. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, John. And thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:15.0 | So obviously, Egypt has been heavily impacted by both the pandemic |
| 1:21.0 | and most importantly by the War of Ukraine. |
| 1:25.0 | And Egypt was the Ukraine and Russia area were their major sorts of wheat. |
| 1:31.0 | And also ironically tourism. |
| 1:35.0 | So the lack of tourism revenue and the lack of wheat imports has was the first major |
| 1:43.0 | aid to Egypt's economy. |
| 1:47.0 | But going a little deeper back since President Ceci took power, |
| 1:53.0 | he brought with him the military into all aspects of the state basically. |
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