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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Delicious Baron: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Inspector Barnaby: [qb] I was thinking about this too. But it would not work. This is why. You have a population of the majority are uneducated and unskilled. Just like the people of the Shanty town there. You take him and his wife and 10 kids out to the desert and give him a piece of land to farm with a house and utilities and you buy his produce to use or export. As long as dad lives everything is okay. he has a house and income. Then dad dies. Inheritance laws here say that the property and land are divided amongst the children. He has 10!! So what used to be a decent piece of land with an income, after dad's death becomes a 1/10th share. So each child if they are sons has a portion. Not enough to live on if it is divided. Some will sell it for building, so then have no income from growing crops. The that child has 10 children and his piece of land is further divided in a 1/10th on his death. Now you have a piece of land that used to support a whole family has become the size of a 'bathroom' This is what was tried years ago. To give them a bit land, but the inheritance rules that they live by destroy any income in 2 generations. So they had to move to the cities. This is what we have now. People who have 10 children and cannot feed them living in squalor. Selling tissues on the street with filthy babies in their arms for a few piastres. I really have no idea what the government can do about this huge problem :( Seriously what steps could they take tomorrow? [/qb][/QUOTE]It has more to do with villagers learning in the 60s and 70s of better jobs and healthcare in Cairo. Major land owners adopt modern agricultural practices and thus less farm workers, the sons move to the cities in the 70s and 80s. Between the agricultural and industrial revolution; in addition to the fear of having the family men being drafted to build public works. Such as the Suez Canal 4 in 10 died while or shortly after forcibly serve during its construction. With Sadat in power immediately after the Aswan dam being built, planning the second Delta project. Well it was time to flee to the city, un registered addresses hinders authorities ability to locate persons. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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