Egyptian economy still struggling, but leather lends a hand

15/11/2013

Egypt’s trade and industry minister, Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, has praised the country’s leather industry for its contribution towards making the country’s economy less dependent on petroleum. Results for the first ten months of 2013 show that Egypt’s non-petroleum exports grew by 12% compared to the same period last year. On announcing the...