Egypt has had a very strong economic growth in recent years, a situation that continues even as of 2005, with a growth in GDP of 4.5% divided on a population growth of 1.8%.
In recent years, Egyptian bureaucracy has been slimmed to facilitate national activities and foreign investments. While exporters earlier had to deal with several state authorities, they now only need to face one.
But despite the positive growth, Egypt still exhibits extreme differences between rich and poor, and is by any standard still to be considered a poor country. However, a growing number of the inhabitants can be considered as middle class or rich