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“This book is a highly valuable contribution to the current debateon how to achieve stabilization and structural adjustment programs in the MiddleEast presenting widely differing country profiles.” — Digest of Middle EastStudies “This book is an excellent collection of ten countrycase-studies by well-known Middle East political scientists… ” — MESABulletin ..”. a highly original and valuable contribution onan important and most timely topic…. combines clarity of focus and breadth ofgeographic coverage.” — Robert Bianchi Internationalspecialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-runeconomies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and NorthAfrica. 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.
