REFORMS AFTER ARAB SPRING: Asian Development Research Institute member-secretary Shaibal Gupta and (right) Asad Alam, World Bank country director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, at the seminar on "Egypt - Renewing the Social Contract" in Patna on Friday. "Egypt has undertaken a slew of reforms in the last three years to pull its economy out of decades of slumber - the same set of uncertainties where people were outraged over worsening public services, suffering from high rates of stunting and huge spatial inequalities which triggered Arab Spring," said Alam on the Adri campus. He added that Egypt had once pledged a kind of highly inclusive "contract" to its people in the form of inclusive education, better health and jobs. "Social contract can have different meanings as society keeps evolving, and the contract must change accordingly, too," he said. Drawing similarities between India and Egypt, Alam said both countries have suffered from huge subsidy spends for a long time.
TT Bureau
Published 10.11.17, 06:30 PM
REFORMS AFTER ARAB SPRING: Asian Development Research Institute member-secretary Shaibal Gupta and (right) Asad Alam, World Bank country director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, at the seminar on "Egypt - Renewing the Social Contract" in Patna on Friday. "Egypt has undertaken a slew of reforms in the last three years to pull its economy out of decades of slumber - the same set of uncertainties where people were outraged over worsening public services, suffering from high rates of stunting and huge spatial inequalities which triggered Arab Spring," said Alam on the Adri campus. He added that Egypt had once pledged a kind of highly inclusive "contract" to its people in the form of inclusive education, better health and jobs. "Social contract can have different meanings as society keeps evolving, and the contract must change accordingly, too," he said. Drawing similarities between India and Egypt, Alam said both countries have suffered from huge subsidy spends for a long time. Text by Dipak Mishra, picture by Manoj Kumar
Monday, 15 December 2025
