Investments boost Egypt’s economy, but rural poverty highlights unequal benefits from economic recovery efforts.
![Investments are pouring into Egypt, as well as international loans, but the poor complain that subsidies have been removed [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] (Reuters)](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-09-18T090517Z_377993064_RC2WSGAHPPWL_RTRMADP_3_EGYPT-ECONOMY-BILLBOARDS-1764962089.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Investments boost Egypt’s economy, but rural poverty highlights unequal benefits from economic recovery efforts.
![Investments are pouring into Egypt, as well as international loans, but the poor complain that subsidies have been removed [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] (Reuters)](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-09-18T090517Z_377993064_RC2WSGAHPPWL_RTRMADP_3_EGYPT-ECONOMY-BILLBOARDS-1764962089.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The past few years have seen a warming of relations between the two countries, cemented by high-level visits.

One of the 28 premature Gaza babies moved to Egypt from al-Shifa is dead. And trucks with Gaza aid must wait again.

Egypt’s regional gas hub ambitions are in jeopardy – but is that temporary or a more structural issue?

Egypt is privatising – but is it enough to please the IMF and get more funding from the international financial body?
