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The (personal) skills you’ll need post-covid
Upskilling x10: If you peruse social media with any sort of regularity, chances are you’ve come across blanket statements about…
Last Night’s Talk Shows on 20 January 2021
The main event on the airwaves last night: Masaa DMC’s extended interview with World Bank senior VP and former investment…
Public still > private, Reuters says
Egyptian state-owned companies are “eclipsing” the private sector despite IMF-backed structural reforms designed to reorientate the economy toward private sector…
IMF gives policymakers top marks for covid response
Egypt’s “proactive and targeted response” to the economic fallout from the pandemic helped Egypt fare better than observers had expected,…
Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2021? (Part 2)
nfrastructure: What’s to come in 2021 Part 2: Last week, we looked at two key infrastructure areas for 2021: water…
A little bit limp
Annual urban headline inflation dropped to 5.4% in December from 5.7% in November, according to figures released Sunday by state…
The 2020s ≠ the 1930s, but...
Global growth is expected to be slightly lower than previously expected as cases continue to accelerate in advanced economies, the…
Infrastructure YiR Recap
As 2020 draws to a close, we’re running a recap of our Hardhat Year in Review issues. In part 1,…
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