Apart from its great political achievements, the revolutionary government of Egypt has been more successful with the problem of redistributing the national cake according to its avowed aim of social justice than with the problem of increasing its size. This is the more difficult of the two tasks, given the ‘revolutionariness’ of the government and the type of economic problems. To carry on with the latter task, however, it is necessary to close certain gaps in the Egyptian armory: Intensive cost studies have to be made in all lines of production; experts should replace non-experts in a number of fields; the present high degree of centralization of the economy should give away to decentralization. Above it is essential to be able to pick talent, to have a better utilization of the available human resources. To realize all this it is necessary to create an atmosphere of trust and freedom, and this is clearly envisaged in the Draft of the Charter presented by Nasser in May 1962.
