Sleeping Tiger on the Nile in Sheep’s Clothing
I have always been one of those skeptics that all governments have a tendency to bend the truth and very little of what they say should be believed. In this context, many years ago I had a chance encounter with my first experience with economic data fabrication in Egypt. I was just a young analyst, and was following economic trends in Egypt closely. I started noticing that Egypt’s three government-owned newspapers carried articles daily on new incoming investments, foreign an
