Privatization and Liberalization in the

"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 BianchiInternational 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.

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.

Preface
Privatization: The Issue, the Prospects, and the Fears	p. 1
Extra-State Actors and Privatization in Egypt	p. 24
Privatization in Egypt: The Regional Dimensions	p. 46
Egypt's Liberalization Experience and Its Impact on State-Owned Enterprises	p. 60
Labor as an Obstacle to Privatization: The Case of Egypt	p. 81
Constraints to Privatization in Turkey	p. 106
Divergent Modes of Economic Liberalization in Syria and Iraq	p. 123
Economic Liberalization in Oil-Exporting Countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia	p. 145
Economic and Political Liberalization in a Rentier Economy: The Case of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	p. 167
Breaking with Socialism: Economic Liberalization and Privatization in Algeria	p. 189
Privatization and Development in Tunisia	p. 210
Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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