>Egypt has a reputation for being a poor country. Official statistics by CAPMAS, the Centra Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, declare that in 2013 some 26.3 per cent of the population lived below the poverty line. With such figures, it came as a stunning surprise that Egyptians were able to raise some EGP64 billion in a mere eight days. But even more amazing was the fact announced by Hisham Ramez, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), that some EGP27 billion of the total sum raised had come from outside the banking sector ... Learn more