Egypt received billions of dollars worth of investments from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar this week. A lot of it has to do with the war in Ukraine and the price of wheat. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Mirette F. Mabrouk, director of the Egypt program at the Middle East Institute, about the state of Egypt’s economy.
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