Egyptian privatization: New challenges for the left

Middle East Report

Volumn 29, Issue 210, 1999, Pages 38-40

  Pripstein Posusney, Marsha ^a,b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bryant College   (United States)

^c MERIP Board of Directors ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; MARKET TRANSITION; PRIVATIZATION; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT;

EGYPT;

EID: 0032810164     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3012502     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. I am grateful to Robert Vitalis, Samer Shehata, Joel Beinin and several members of the Middle East Report Editorial Committee for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
2. Unless otherwise noted, information on Egyptian privatization since 1996 is drawn from Al-Ahram Weekly, Middle East Economic Digest, and Business Monthly. On privatization battles before 1996, see my Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
3. The World Bank. Bureaucrats in Business (New York Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 202.
4. Al-Sha'b, April 19, 1994.
5. Samer Shehata, "Working Class Politics and Culture in Egypt." Ph.D. dissertation, Politics Department, Princeton University, forthcoming.
6. The latter point was contributed by John Skafianakos.
7. For more on valuation controversies, see Sophia Anninos, "The Value of Privatization," paper presented at the 1998 Middle East Studies Association conference.
8. Inter alia, John Waterbury, Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 235,
9. and World Bank, World Development Report 1995, pp. 103-08.
10. This discussion is based primarily on interviews I conducted with labor activists and social researchers conducted in Cairo in January 1999.