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Ramadan
goals. Perhaps the salient example of this would
Faculty’s scientific journals. What are your
aspirations in terms of scientific research? be what happened recently with the project to
clean canals, which showed that unless we can
I’m glad that our Faculty cares about scientific research change people’s behavior and understand its
and that it spares no effort or resource in trying to motives, what we spend on such projects will
maintain the quality of its research centers and keep going to waste. The material aspects are
encouraging researchers, often by offering them growing rapidly but the human aspect still lacks
rewards. However, I do wish that the government would certain capacities, ideas and behavior.
play a more active role in encouraging scientific
research, especially since researchers face many Moreover, services such as education and health
difficulties in terms of finding credible sources and the are growing at a slower pace than the
necessary funding, which leads researchers, in many developmental projects for which they are
cases, to have to choose between their research, on required. And these are entitled services that
one hand, and the financial support that they need on should not represent a burden to citizens.
the other. Therefore, I hope for an activation of the
relevant government role in this regard. Finally, what is your advice for our students
who are interested in economic research?
You are an expert in economics and a former
consultant for the parliamentary economic You are living in a golden age; your lives are
committee. How do you read the current state of much easier because you have libraries, the
the Egyptian economy and its future trajectory? internet and the Community Service office; we
didn’t even have calculators. We used to search
Projects are no longer empty promises but are tangible for work or training opportunities, although it was
reality. There is a large economic movement underway uncommon and difficult to travel abroad for these
that can be considered as a course correction. The purposes. We truly struggled and the generation
results of this movement have been great, particularly before us struggled even more; so, I hope that
in terms of infrastructure and developmental projects you make the most use of the opportunities of
such as Hayat Karima and the development of informal your era because I tend to notice some
settlements. However, I hope that more attention will be reluctance on the part of students.
given to the development of human capital as well,
without which it’s impossible to realize the development

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