Monday 23 July 2007

unequal economy

Sorry about the delay, the arabic course takes a hell a lot of my time up, but the real reason to be honest is that its a bit if a chore to come down to the internet cafe.
A thing I noticed though in Egypt was the huge gap between the rich and the poor. One way this shows is that when we cash in a tenner that equals LE100. But the thing is that most things can be bought for under 50p or in LE5 and with most being under LE1 which means about 0.5p. And the thing is people don't have change for the LE100 we carry around - even supermarkets, which just throws up the comparison with the upmarket Egypt even more starkly: Star City Mall. 250 plus shops, probably the most flash shopping centre I have ever been to, we don't do them as well even in Britain. But here LE100 is nothing, and actually the prices are higher than Britain.
So I'll sign off and go and pay my 0.5 pence for the hour of Internet usage I guess.



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