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Egypt needs to take additional steps to narrow the gap between the positive and <\/strong>negative impact of the EGP float and other economic reform policies<\/strong>, Ziad Bahaa El Din writes for Al Shorouk<\/a>. While there\u2019s no denying that reform measures were both necessary and inevitable, the real measure of their success is how they reflect on the populace. Bahaa El Din argues that laws and policies are not enough to effect real change. Widening the social safety net, for instance, is not only achieved through pension programs and income tax cuts, but by an improvement in public services such as health, education, transport, and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt needs to take additional steps to narrow the gap between the positive and negative impact of the EGP float and other economic reform policies, Ziad Bahaa El Din writes for Al Shorouk. 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