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What was your student life like, what Now, these terms, such as corruption
activities did you engage in, and what was and governance, have become
your relationship with your professors? buzzwords and have received

attention from many governments. In
I wasn't really a first-bench student; I used Egypt, the state is interested in this
to sit with my friends in the back. Since I field, and I have participated in
was young, I loved to enjoy my life, and I writing the third version of the anti-

did not devote all my time to one specific corruption strategy. This indicates the
thing; I studied and worked hard, but I state's interest. Indicators that
had fun with my friends during my break. measure corruption and the quality of
I was close to some of the professors, and institutions in the state have also

they welcomed my questions. I also started to appear.
participated in student activities in the
faculty, especially the stock market model. What experiences did our guest gain
from working at the Ministry of

What are the lessons learned from your Planning? What do you think about
merging both the Ministries of
study of the field of anti-corruption during
Planning and Economic Development
most of your years of activity?
together?
My interest in this field began in my
master’s degree, and the credit for
I started my work at the Ministry of
choosing this topic goes to Dr. Abdullah
Planning immediately after my
Shehata and Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim, as they
master’s degree as a researcher in the
supervised my master’s thesis. This area
office of Minister Dr. Mohamed Fathi
was not particularly studied in the
Saqr, so I gained practical application
Department of Economics as it was a
experiences for what I studied in
subject of public administration. For this
faculty, such as how to calculate and
reason, I linked it in my study with
collect data. The Ministry now issues
economic growth. But it is beginning to
special reports analyzing economic
become very popular in institutional
performance and following up on the
economics.
state’s plan.
The laws, customs and traditions, and the
During my work in the Ministry, what
entities that regulated the work of
was called the “Five-Year Plan” was
individuals, became considered as
issued. It was a plan every five years
institutions. This was the beginning of my
and it followed development every
love and interest in the field of
year, but now its name has become
institutional economics, because
the investment plan that aims to
corruption appears when institutions are
achieve Egypt’s 2030 plan
weak.

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