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Does Charity Fill The Economic Gap In Egypt?

March 2, 2015

In a world where the progression of free markets makes way for more greed, we see growth rate statistics that don’t resonate to the social injustice obvious to everyone who takes a look around. Governments and their different bodies often seem to work much harder on polishing their countries’ conditions than actually fixing them. Amid this continuous political game of pretense, we see gaps widening, and social injustice eroding communities’ sense of security only to replace it with sickness that weakens the entire society. As elaborately discussed in Richard Wilkinson’s book ‘TheSpirit Level’, regardless of the wealth or poverty of a country, and regardless of its average GDP growth, the widening of the gap between the rich and poor is certain to affect the well-being of everyone,  the rich included. Although some governments aim to achieve narrower gaps through reducing gaps in earnings, others realize that goal through taxation and redistribution of wealth. Away from secular countries where religions and spirituality are rarely spoken of, Arab Middle Eastern countries build much of their laws and regulations in accordance with the prevailing religious context. According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Egypt…


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