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Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East Iliya Harik

Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East By Iliya Harik

Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East by Iliya Harik


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Presents the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts in a range of countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. This title demonstrates that it is the politics of such reforms that often determines the success or failure of economic policy changes.

Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East Summary

Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East by Iliya Harik

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.

About Iliya Harik

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.

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

Additional information

NLS9780253207487
9780253207487
0253207487
Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East by Iliya Harik
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
1992-12-22
256
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