VOL. XLIII

No. 31

30-July-2000

EGYPT

Egypt Privatization Plan Seen Complete By Year End 2001

Egyptian Minister of Public Enterprise Mukhtar Khattab, whose ministry supervises the governments privatization program, has said that the state has sold 135 public enterprises since the government launched the program in 1996 and will sell the remaining 179 public enterprises by 2001 despite a lack of foreign interest, according to the semi-official al-Ahram on 20 July.

The government expects to earn E...