In this edition of Policy Perspective, Research Fellow Ragui Assaad writes that the common MENA countries policy of providing free public higher education is a misguided one. He explains that while such policies were adopted to ensure equality of opportunity, in Egypt they’ve led to the opposite; a system when scarce public resources actually subsidize the rich at the expense of the poor.
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Research Fellows
Ragui Assaad
Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, University...