Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Argument -- 2 The Origins of Egypt's Economic Crisis -- Nasser's Break with the Ancien Régime -- Sadat and Infitah -- The International Context -- Mubarak and the Economic Crisis of the 1980s -- Egypt's Recurrent Economic Crisis -- 3 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 -- Conclusion -- 4 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 -- 5 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 -- 6 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 -- References -- Index.

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Economic crisis and the politics of reform in Egypt

Bush, Ray

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