Egypt's Economic Predicament

A Study in the Interaction of External Pressure, Political Folly and Social Tension in Egypt, 1960-1990
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10188-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

Egypt's Economic Predicament contains a succinct and lucid analysis of virtually all the major economic problems of Egypt: their origin, development and the prospect of solving them. It presents today's economic problems of Egypt in a wider historical context and shows their relationship to current social issues, including the growth of religious fanaticism.
The book also contains a powerful critique of the “Structural Adjustment” program of reform, which constitutes today's conventional wisdom.
The subtitle of the book describes it as “a study in the interaction of external pressure, political folly and social tension”, and as such it should be of interest not only to scholars and students of development in Egypt and the Middle East, but to those occupied with other Third World countries as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amin, Galal A

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Galal A. Amin, Ph.D. (1964) in economics, University of London, is Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo. He has published extensively on economic, social and cultural developments in Egypt and the Arab world, including The Modernization of Poverty, (Brill, 1974).