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Egypt's economic future

Business Daily reports from Egypt on how strikes and protests are stopping economic life getting back to normal. The issue now is not fundamental freedoms but pay and conditions.

Today Business Daily reports from Egypt.

President Mubarak may have gone but we'll be hearing how waves of strikes and protests are still hampering economic life from returning to normal.

The issue now is not fundamental freedoms but pay and conditions.

Nevertheless these protests can get violent - as our own correspondent Rob Young discovered.

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