Economic Shifts in the UK and Egypt
This film is part of a two-part series produced for an Open University economics degree, exploring how government policies dismantled the global cotton trade. The film features rare archive footage to plot the industry’s transformation, from the deindustrialisation of Northern British towns under Thatcher to Egypt’s struggle against subsidised US competition.
The film features exclusive interviews with global experts, including Lord Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, and Professor Khalid Ikram, former Director of the World Bank. Alongside government advisors and workers, they provide a definitive analysis of how debt and free-market reforms reshaped the global industry.
