An upgrade in public health was an obvious and immediate source of improvement in quality of life and a source of merit for the government. The effects of the educational policies were more subtle: "The regime had decided that education, including higher-level education, would be free for all who wanted it." Moreover, "all university graduates were promised positions in government or in the massive public-sector companies that were established after nationalization." However, as mentioned, even these denotative areas of amelioration are accompanied by statistically negative effects.
Although Egypt is a land poor in natural resources, its population is "the largest in the Arab world." The above-noted increase in population and its concomitant "worsening man-land ratio has contributed to a decrease in agricultural production per person of population, which in turn has resulted in conspicuous shortages of f
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