Egypt should follow a long-term, sustainable plan to combat inflation

The government’s efforts to keep prices in check are not sustainable in the long run, Ziad Bahaa El Din argues in a piece to Al Shorouk. Rather than trying to impose greater oversight on the market to regulate prices — which has proved inefficient for a number of reasons that include the large size of the country’s informal sector — the state should focus on making basic services, such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure, more readily available, he writes. The government should also promote entrepreneurship and reconsider its policies on NGOs, which used to compose a parallel social security net.