CATCHING UP WITH THE 21st CENTURY

摘要

FOR MOST OF HIS NEARLY quarter-of-a-century in power,Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resisted calls for a radical restructuring of his country's moribund economy.Last summer,prodded by his son Gamal,a former banker,and other advisers,Mubarak finally decided that doing nothing was even riskier than administering strong medicine.He appointed a dynamic new Prime Minister,Ahmed Nazif,who rounded up an all-star team of economists and businesspeople for his Cabinet.