1st Edition
The State and Global Change The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and north Africa
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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Economic liberalisation and reform are widely considered as the favourite remedies for the declining economic fortunes of the Middle Eastern and North African states in the past two decades. International economic institutions have been among the main advocates of transition to market-led economies in the region and a force contributing to its realisation. This has placed the state at the centre... Read more
Missing links - institutional capability, policy reform and growth in the MENA region; structural obstacles to economic adjustment in the MENA region - the international trade aspects; from MENA to East Asia and back - lessons of globalisation, crisis and economic reform; the politics of economic liberalization - comparing Egypt and Syria; economic reform and the state in Tunisia; international and regional environments and state transformation in some Arab countries; restructuring the public sector in post-1980 Turkey - an assessment; states, elites and the "management of change"; the Middle Eastern state - repositioning not retreat?; global change, interdependence, and the state autonomy - a view from the MENA region.
Biography
Hassan Hakimian and Ziba Moshaver
