American History - Hardcover

Ritchie, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028223128 ISBN 13: 9780028223124

Publisher: Glencoe,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

Agriculture is at the centre of Egypt's economy, society and politics. This volume on Egyptian agriculture and rural society combines local research with national rural policy analysis. In particular, it explores the impact of market liberalization policies introduced under pressure from the World Bank, IMF and USAID, and especially of Law 96 of 1992 which fundamentally reversed the gains tenant farmers had obtained under Nasserist reforms nearly 40 years ago. The book examines the agribusiness strategy of the Egyptian Government and its goal of agricultural export-led growth; debates, policies and conflicts over access to water; the long history of conflict in Egypt's agricultural sector; and a series of original investigations into tenancy relations and the new 1992 tenancy law. Authored by a team of Egyptian and Western scholars, this work, offers a documented and analytical insight into how rural Egypt is paying a price of increasing poverty and immiseration for the neo-liberal economic policies being foisted on their country with the enthusiastic compliance of the Egyptian Government.

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Review:

"There is much to be learned from this unique collection of studies on the impact the reversal of the Nasserite land reform on Egyptian agriculture and rural social relations in the 1990s." --Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard

About the Author:

Dr RAY BUSH is based in the Institute for Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. His recent books include Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt (Westview, 1999). The CONTRIBUTORS are Egyptian and Western scholars based in Egypt, Denmark and the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glencoe,U.S.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0028223128
• ISBN 13: 9780028223124
• Binding: Hardcover