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Ancient Egypt
EGYPT’S STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
1- the Nile river and its fertile banks
2- isolated country difficult to invade
3- papyrus growing on the banks so possibility to write. And they do write and record everything. Writers are then called Scribes.
4- On the Mediterranean Sea, but also south in Africa: contact with two worlds so to speak. And also, an opening on the red sea called Erythrean Sea, so also commerce with Persia and India.
5- A happy people, full of optimism, meditating (like yogins) and inventing things: first to do foot massage, mummifying corpses, great doctors at the time. Intellectuals were encouraged to work.
6-Egypt is the most populous Arab country. Due to its size, the country is an important and influential market, which is likely to grow in the long term. Egypt has a sizeable and growing minority with spending power similar to consumers in industrialised economies.
7-The country's prime location renders it an export base to Asia, Africa and Europe. Egypt is also accessible through a number of airports and ports across the globe. Movement of goods has increased with an improvement in the transport system and modernisation of ports.
8-Egypt has a large, young, educated and trainable workforce of nearly 22.5 million that is available at a competitive cost. Females constitute about 4.5 million of the workforce.
9-A new report by Ernst & Young, in collaboration with Oxford Economics ranks, Egypt as 9th among the top African countries for foreign direct investment. The report also notes Egypt's strengths: a, "relatively well-educated population, sizeable domestic market and proximity to Europe."
10-In recent years, Egypt has established itself as an outstanding location for IT and business process outsourcing. The country's track record in IT is impressive, with a number of leading global companies capitalising on its unique mix of strengths. With existing companies expanding operations and the entry of new players, Egypt is

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