With Egypt mired in a revolutionary turmoil, the economic issues have yet to be addressed by any of the major political players in Egypt today! Whether an avowed dictatorship, a transitional military council, or a duly elected government, regime after regime have failed and collapsed in Egypt over the past three years. They seem oblivious to the country’s central quandary: how to feed its people and how to feed them now. VOMENA’s Khalil Bendib spoke with Egyptian political economist Amr Adly about the central economic challenges Egypt is facing which have resulted in an increasingly disaffected population, half of which is living in dire poverty and whose expectations have been raised by the 2011 collapse of the Mubarak regime.