Excellent scientific analysis highlighting the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. While various mass media tried to explain what had caused the riots, most explanations followed the same pattern, blaming:- economic stagnation,
- poverty,
- inequality,
- corruption, and
- unemployment.
A typical explanation is that “Egyptians have the same complaints that drove Tunisians onto the streets: surging food prices, poverty, unemployment and authoritarian rule that smothers public protests quickly and often brutally”.
Such unanimity incited Andrey V. Korotayev and Julia V. Zinkina to investigate to what extent those accusations reflected the Egyptian reality.
So they decided to take each of the above mentioned “revolution causes” and to look into the actual dynamics of the relevant socioeconomic indicators in the years preceding the Egyptian revolution.
Below is the link to their numbers-never-lie study:
