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Financial support to the poor: Does it really work?
Beesan Kassab | Question marks around two government funds' ability to alleviate poverty with current austerity measures
7 February 2017
Central Auditing Authority • 18 min read
Opening the black box of Egypt’s slush funds
Nizar Manek and Jeremy Hodge | A version of this article was originally published May 26 on Africa Confidential and has been reprinted
28 May 2015
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