1st Edition

State Reform and Development in the Middle East Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era

By Amr Adly Copyright 2013
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt’s manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated. In this book, Amr Adly uses extensive primary research to present detailed comparisons of Turkey’s and Egypt’s state administrative and... Read more

Introduction  1. Why does State Reform vary among Developing Countries?  2. Escort States and Export Restructuring  3. What Happened in Turkey (1983-2010)?  4. Mission Unaccomplished: Egypt (1990-2010)  5. Whence come State Reform?  6. Political Competition and Institutional Reform  7. Revenue-Bases and State Reform  8. Pathways to Export-Lled Growth: ISI Institutional Legacy and State Reform  9. External Factors and State Reform  10. The End of a Non-Developmental Regime: Mubarak’s Decline and Fall (2004-2011)  11. Concluding Remarks 

Biography

Amr Adly holds a PhD from the European University Institute-Florence and currently works as a senior researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, heading the unit of social and economic rights.