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Book SynopsisPresents 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
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
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