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Tackling overpopulation should have taken precedence over economic reforms:<\/strong> With every opinion writer becoming a football commentator, we managed to stumble on to this little doozy. The government needs to start getting creative to tackle Egypt\u2019s population crisis, writes Mohamed Abul Ghar in Al Masry Al Youm<\/a>. He invoked China\u2019s \u201cone-child policy\u201d as an example of extreme measures taken by a state to handle the issue. Abul Ghar even suggests that combatting the population crisis should set the pace for the economic reforms and should supersede them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tackling overpopulation should have taken precedence over economic reforms: With every opinion writer becoming a football commentator, we managed to stumble on to this little doozy. The government needs to start getting creative to tackle Egypt\u2019s population crisis, writes Mohamed Abul Ghar in Al Masry Al Youm. 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