Egypt increases in misery

Al-Shorouq leads with “Egypt increases in misery with the rise in prices and unemployment.” The article is based on information from Bloomberg’s latest “Misery Index,” which combines the rate of inflation with unemployment as a measure of social and economic costs for a country.

In the case of Egypt, the index, as of March 2010, set “misery” at 21.6 percent, a rise from the March 2009 figure which was 20.84 percent.