ISBN: 978-1-55587-932-7 $52.00 | ||
2001/237 pages/LC: 00-046001 |
Rivlin examines the socioeconomic issues that are major concerns for policymakers, the role of rental incomes and interest groups, and the particular problems facing the industrial and agricultural sectors. Assessing data from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Syria, he devotes two chapters to the results of stabilization and structural adjustment policies. His insightful analysis is situated in the context of the sharp debate about IMF- and World Bank-adjustment policies.
"A detailed account of the state of economic policy-making and performance in the Arab countries (in the Middle East and North Africa) in the 1990's....Will benefit a wide range of people including researchers, academics, policy-makers and students of Middle Eastern and Arab studies."—M. Niaz Asadullah, Development and Change
"Rivlin provides ... [an] accessible introduction to recent economic developments in the Arab countries, especially Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia."—Foreign Affairs
"An informative and useful study."—Iliya Harik, Middle East Journal