{"id":651765,"date":"2017-02-20T04:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/20\/the-politics-behind-transportation-reform-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T04:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:08:41","slug":"the-politics-behind-transportation-reform-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/20\/the-politics-behind-transportation-reform-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"The politics behind transportation reform in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

While transportation is a popular \u201capolitical\u201d avenue for international development \u201cthe impact is negligible in the end...development is done in a piecemeal and fractured way,\u201dthe head of Cairobserver Mohamed El Shahed tells CityLab<\/a>\u2019s Miriam Berger. The emphasis is on building big, extravagant new cities in the desert and wide roads and highways\u2014all of which bring the government a fa\u00e7ade of prestige without actually benefiting average people. Big investors backing these projects with loans keep Egypt entrenched in a \u201cneoliberal network of prioritizing profits over real reform,\u201d writes Berger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While transportation is a popular \u201capolitical\u201d avenue for international development \u201cthe impact is negligible in the end...development is done in a piecemeal and fractured way,\u201dthe head of Cairobserver Mohamed El Shahed tells CityLab\u2019s Miriam Berger. The emphasis is on building big, extravagant new cities in the desert and wide roads and highways\u2014all of which bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9291],"tags":[2370,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-651765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-transportation","tag-automotive-transportation","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a989eb8d-6c07-4a3b-a0f5-7c9d937de5e7","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[651728],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nThe politics behind transportation reform in Egypt - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/20\/the-politics-behind-transportation-reform-in-egypt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The politics behind transportation reform in Egypt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While transportation is a popular \u201capolitical\u201d avenue for international development \u201cthe impact is negligible in the end...development is done in a piecemeal and fractured way,\u201dthe head of Cairobserver Mohamed El Shahed tells CityLab\u2019s Miriam Berger. 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