I try to be nice, really.
a)
GDP growth was way bigger than population growth.
That's a real world fact and easily accessible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy...ypt#Reform_era : Economic growth p.a. about 5%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...on_growth_rate : Population growth p.a. about 2%
b)
Their trade balance deficit was gross. It was also many times as large as the wheat imports (if I believe your figures - too lazy for crawling through FAO statistics now).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_egypt : USD 23 bn trade balance deficit
http://www.mongabay.com/images/commo...rts/wheat.html : even at its peak, 8 million metric tons of wheat did only cost USD 3.5 bn. About 2/3 of this price was representative for the last few years.
A thirty-year one-man dictatorship was overdue. We need no facebook, wheat imports or other fashionable (Malthus is apparently never out of fashion!) explanations for Mubarak's demise.
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