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This book is a highly valuable contribution to the current debate on how to achieve stabilization and structural adjustment programs in the Middle East presenting widely differing country profiles."" -Digest of Middle East Studies This book is an excellent collection of ten country case-studies by well-known Middle East political scientists... "" -MESA Bulletin ... a highly original and valuable contribution on an important and most timely topic.... combines clarity of focus and breadth of geographic coverage."" -Robert Bianchi International specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

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Author:   Iliya Harik ,  Denis J. Sullivan
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780253207487

ISBN 10:   0253207487
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 December 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface One Privatization: The Issue, the Prospects, and the Fears Iliya Harik Two Extra-State Actors and Privatization in Egypt Denis J. Sullivan Three Privatization in Egypt: The Regional Dimensions Abdel Monem Said Aly Four Egypt's Liberization Experience and Its Impact on State-Owned Enterprises Khaled Fouad Sherif and Regina M. Soos Five Labor as an Obstacle to Privatization: The Case of Egypt Marsha Pripstein Posusney Six Constraints to Privatization in Turkey Marcie J. Patton Seven Divergent Modes of Economic Liberalization in Syria and Iraq Fred H. Lawson Eight Economic Liberalization in Oil-Exporting Countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia Kiren Aziz Chaudhry Nine Economic and Political Liberalization in a Rentier Economy: The Case of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Laurie A. Brand Ten Breaking with Socialism: Economic, Liberalization and Privatization in Algeria Dirk Vandewalle Eleven Privatization and Development in Tunisia Iliya Harik Contributors Index

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ILIYA HARIK is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and former Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. He is author of The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of the Egyptian Community and co-editor (with Louis J. Cantori) of Local Politics and Development in the Middle East. DENIS J. SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is completing a book on private voluntary organizations and development in Egypt.

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