"If Vodafone is developing schools, Chipsy helping schools, Resala clothing the poor, Mobinil offering jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, Pepsi sponsoring sports, and Etisalat delivering clean water to homes, then what is the government doing?"..."If companies take over responsibility for vital services like clean drinking water and education, then what is the government's role," Nadin Shams, a screenwriter, asked...However, Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil, a professor of economics at Cairo University, believes that CSR projects can play a complementary role to that of the state...Another fine line is how to differentiate between CSR programmes and advertisements for the companies. However, as Khaled El-Balshi, editor of the leftist daily Al-Badil says...the best publicity for any company is the success of its CSR projects. [also refers to Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Exxon Mobil]