Political Vegetables? Businessman and Bureaucrat in the Development of Egyptian Agriculture

by Sadowski, Yahya M

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Book description: Washington, D.C., U.S.A: Brookings Institution Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book explains that the primary obstacles to development in Egypt, which has been trying to expand the role of market forces in its economy, are political, not economic; through a detailed study of the agricultural sector, it documents how consumers, bureaucrats, and businessmen have benefited from the subsidies and rents created by the existing pattern of state intervention; it shows how these groups manipulate the Egyptian polity to secure their own profits and insulate themselves from risk, thereby unintentionally but systematically sacrificing any chance for national economic development and frustrating the efforts by the IMF and U.S. AID to encourage economic reform in Egypt (pictorial cover, minor crease at lower right front corner, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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