ASSESSMENTS

Ahead of Elections, Egypt Attempts Minor Subsidy Reforms

May 1, 2014 | 09:30 GMT

Egyptians walk past a poster of former Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in downtown Cairo on March 27.
Egyptians walk past a poster of former Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in downtown Cairo on March 27.

(KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Despite recent political instability and international outrage at a second round of death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, Cairo is pushing forward on economic reforms to encourage stability. In the government's view, reform will become more difficult and costly the longer it is delayed. ...

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