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Government borrowing that has brought foreign debt to alarming levels mus t be stopped<\/strong> and replaced with measures to increase domestic production with an eye to boost exports, Mohamed Mekky writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk<\/a>. Mekky points out that foreign debt levels are as equally alarming as booming population growth rates, criticizing the government for claiming our debt levels are manageable when the opposite is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government borrowing that has brought foreign debt to alarming levels mus t be stopped and replaced with measures to increase domestic production with an eye to boost exports, Mohamed Mekky writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk. 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