The Political Economy Of Crisis Management And Reform In Egypt

Author : Mahmoud Mohieldin,Hanan Amin-Salem,Amira El-Shal,Eman Moustafa
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3031194810

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The Political Economy of Crisis Management and Reform in Egypt by Mahmoud Mohieldin,Hanan Amin-Salem,Amira El-Shal,Eman Moustafa Pdf

There is a significant discrepancy between the population of Egypt and the GDP of this country. This book offers pragmatic policy prescriptions for Egyptian decision-makers. It provides a path forward and toward a better future for the Egyptian people. The country faces challenges with household income, social welfare, productivity, and many other markers of twenty-first century economic success even vis-à-vis other developing country peers. This book focuses on framing the optimal macroeconomic policy agenda for Egypt in the face of the big global, regional and national forces that are being accelerated, intensified or changed by the COVID-19 crisis rather than on specific sectoral policy formulations. The authors present these big questions in the context of showing how Egypt can best navigate the risks and seize the opportunities of the current period of intense flux and transition, to put itself in the best possible position to create prosperity, stability, and hope for its citizens. The authors examine to what extent the Egyptian authorities can fulfill their ambitious development plans and in producing this work, to provide useful lessons that can be applied to other governments struggling to respond to the challenges of the age.

Author : Ray Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429721472

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Economic Crisis And The Politics Of Reform In Egypt by Ray Bush Pdf

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second stage of reforms in 1996. It contributes to the debates underpinning the political economy of economic reform and agricultural reform.

Author : Khalid Ikram
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789774167942

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The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt by Khalid Ikram Pdf

Drawing on Khalid Ikram's extensive knowledge of economic policymaking at the highest levels, The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt lays out the enduring features of the Egyptian economy and its performance since 1952 before presenting an account of policy-making, growth and structural change under the country's successive presidents to the present day.

Author : Sean F. McMahon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783605040

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Crisis and Class War in Egypt by Sean F. McMahon Pdf

In 2011, capital's crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered. In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses Egypt's recent political history. He argues that the so-called 'revolution' was the appearance of capital's destruction of the value of the Egyptian working class and an existential crisis for capital. In response, productive capital in the form of the military used, disposed of and replaced its junior partners in governing; first the predatory capital of the Mubarak state with the commodity capital of the Muslim Brotherhood, and then commodity capital with the finance capital of the Gulf Cooperation Council. These reconfigurations have been expressed in all manner of reactionary governmental arrangements including constitutions, legislation and currency reform. Extending today's analysis into the near future, McMahon sees the war of Egyptian society intensifying, and increasingly violent lives for Egyptian workers.

Author : R. Roccu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137395924

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The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution by R. Roccu Pdf

While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution possible have seldom been explored. Roberto Roccu addresses this gap and in doing this provides the first detailed study of the deeper causes of the Egyptian revolution. Relying on an innovative understanding of Antonio Gramsci's thought, He argues that economic reforms implemented since the late 1980s provided the conditions for both the emergence of a capitalist oligarchy within the regime and an unprecedented rise in socio-economic inequality in society at large. These two processes substantially eroded any remnants of hegemony, leaving the Mubarak regime ill-equipped to face the global economic crisis. By alienating sections of the ruling bloc while impoverishing vast strata of the population, neoliberal reforms provided a necessary, although by no means sufficient, condition for the Egyptian revolution to occur.

Author : Agnieszka Paczyńska
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271062693

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State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy by Agnieszka Paczyńska Pdf

In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries? In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions—the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the “critical junctures” provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state. This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.

Author : Alan Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106009191138

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The Political Economy of Dilatory Reform by Alan Richards Pdf

Author : Alan Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633282726

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The political economy of dilatory reform by Alan Richards Pdf

Author : Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036073216

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The Political Economy of Nasserism by Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil Pdf

Monograph on employment policy and income distribution in urban areas of Egypt from 1952 to 1972 under the Nasser socialist regime - discusses employment trends and economic structure, the informal sector, wage policies, wage differentials, consumption trends, taxation, social structure and the growth of elites, the nature and role of the new middle class, development of trade unions, etc. Bibliography pp. 135 to 140, flow charts, graphs and statistical tables.

Author : Takeo Hoshi,Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108843959

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The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms by Takeo Hoshi,Phillip Y. Lipscy Pdf

Explores the politics and economics of the Abe government and evaluates major policies, such as Abenomics policy reforms.

Author : Robert P. Beschel,Tarik M. Yousef
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815736981

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Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa by Robert P. Beschel,Tarik M. Yousef Pdf

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors. Unwieldy, unresponsive—and often corrupt—governments across the region have faced new pressure, not least from their publics, to improve the quality of public services and open up their decisionmaking processes. Some of these reform efforts were under way and at least partly successful before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2010. Reform efforts have continued in some countries despite the many upheavals since then. This book offers a comprehensive assessment of a wide range of reform efforts in nine countries. In six cases the reforms targeted core systems of government: Jordan's restructuring of cabinet operations, the Palestinian Authority's revision of public financial management, Morocco's voluntary retirement program, human resource management reforms in Lebanon, an e-governance initiative in Dubai, and attempts to improve transparency in Tunisia. Five other reform efforts tackled line departments of government, among them Egypt's attempt to improve tax collection and Saudi Arabia's work to improve service delivery and bill collection. Some of these reform efforts were more successful than others. This book examines both the good and the bad, looking not only at what each reform accomplished but at how it was implemented. The result is a series of useful lessons on how public sector reforms can be adopted in MENA.

Author : Jihad Dagher
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484337745

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Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises by Jihad Dagher Pdf

Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial booms and busts since the 18th century, and presents consistent evidence of pro-cyclical regulatory policies by governments. Financial booms, and risk-taking during these episodes, were often amplified by political regulatory stimuli, credit subsidies, and an increasing light-touch approach to financial supervision. The regulatory backlash that ensues from financial crises can only be understood in the context of the deep political ramifications of these crises. Post-crisis regulations do not always survive the following boom. The interplay between politics and financial policy over these cycles deserves further attention. History suggests that politics can be the undoing of macro-prudential regulations.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264086296

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Making Reform Happen Lessons from OECD Countries by OECD Pdf

This collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future.

Author : Paolo Verme,Sherine Al-Shawarby
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801983

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Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt by Paolo Verme,Sherine Al-Shawarby Pdf

Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Facts and Perceptions Across People, Time, and Space comprises four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper, by Sherine Al-Shawarby, reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. The second paper, by Branko Milanovic, turns to the global and spatial dimensions of inequality. The Egyptian society remains deeply divided across space and in terms of welfare, and this study unveils some of the hidden features of this inequality. The third paper, by Paolo Verme, studies facts and perceptions of inequality during the 2000-2009 period, which preceded the Egyptian revolution. The fourth paper, by Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah, and Enas Ali A.El-Majeed, assesses the state of poverty and inequality among the poorest villages of Egypt. The paper attempts to explain the level of inequality in an effort to disentangle those factors that derive from household abilities from those factors that derive from local opportunities. Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt provides some initial elements that could explain the apparent mismatch between inequality measured with household surveys and inequality aversion measured by values surveys. This is a particularly important and timely topic to address in light of the unfolding developments in the Arab region. The book should be of interest to any observer of the political and economic evolution of the Arab region in the past few years and to poverty and inequality specialists interested in a deeper understanding of the distribution of incomes in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. World Bank Studies are available individually or on standing order. The World Bank Studies series is also available online through the Open Knowledge Repository (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/) and the World Bank e-Library (www.worldbank.org/elibrary). Book jacket.

Author : Aaron G. Jakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503612624

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Egypt's Occupation by Aaron G. Jakes Pdf

The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.