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Economic crisis and the politics of reform in Egypt
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Title
Economic crisis and the politics of reform in Egypt / Ray Bush.
ISBN
0429037031
0429701462
0429721471
0429741480
9780429037030
9780429701467
9780429721472
9780429741487
0367007177
9780367007171
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (201 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©1999.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
Bush, Ray
Summary
Examines the character of Egypt's economic crisis and the reforms promoted to ameliorate it since the mid-1980s, focusing in particular on the period since 1991. Bush attacks the standard view of the causes of the country's economic problems. He argues that it is based on a misunderstanding of the social organization and economic dynamics of rural Egypt and on a crude conception of the market as an instrument of economic progress. To support his alternative perspective, Bush draws on original research material based on interviews with international agency staff and surveys undertaken in four Egyptian villages. This alternative perspective stresses the importance of the household, rather than the farm, as the unit of social and economic organization, the different and varied strategies that households pursue, the central role of women, local responses to environmental problems, and the significance of class and gender inequality in the countryside. These are all areas the international agencies and the government of Egypt have ignored in their push for economic reform.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Origins of Egypt's Economic Crisis
Nasser's Break with the Ancien Regime
Sadat and Infitah
The International Context
Mubarak and the Economic Crisis of the 1980s
Egypt's Recurrent Economic Crisis
Economic Reforms and Egyptian Agriculture
Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme, 1986-1998
Characterising the Agricultural Crisis
Aims and Objectives of Economic Reform
Economic Reforms
An Early Success?
Economic Reforms
Still Not Successful Enough
Agricultural Modernisation and the Egyptian Countryside: A Critique of Structural Adjustment
Comparative Advantage and Tyranny of the Market
The State and Agricultural Modernisation
Government Neglect of Agriculture
Understanding the Countryside
Peasants, Politics, and the State
The Critique: Bringing the Fellahin Back In
Views from the Village
Kafr Tasfa and Kafr Saad
Crisis in the Villages
The Agrarian Reform Law
Village and Environmental Transformations
Women and Coping with Economic Reform
Uniform Strategy Versus Socially Differentiated Villages
Egypt at a Turning Point
Investing in Another Pyramid: The Politics of Tushka
Rural Protest: The Politics of Law 96 of 1992
Agricultural Modernisation: An Alternative
Egyptian Agriculture at a Turning Point.
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