Well it’s the unemployment and high food costs that caused the coup.
The question is what caused the unemployment and high food costs?
In Egypt’s case, I think their is a spiritual cause that trumps economic policy. Their land is a desert, like most Muslim lands, because they have rejected God’s truth in favor of a lie.
But I bet Egypt has pursued the same free trade policies that the U.S. has been practicing and recommending to others. Thus the lack of other industries and the high trade deficits.
There.