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Politics, power and poverty: twenty years of agricultural reform and market liberalisation in Egypt
Third world quarterly • 28 (8) • Published In 2007 • Pages: 1599-1615
By: Bush, Ray.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the character of economic liberalization in Egypt's countryside. It focuses on the impact that reform has had on historic struggles for rights and security for Egypt's Fellahin. The erosion of rights, the hiking of land prices and the failure to promote rural development that embraces the knowledge, skills and expertise of Egypt's smallholders is an indictment of the Murbarak's five terms as president: it will leave a heritage of a subordinated agrarian capitalism shaped by attempts to further incorporate Egypt into the world system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Research and development
- Real property
- Tillage
- Classes
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Land use
- Production and supply
- Renting and leasing
- Water supply
- Environmental quality
- Economic planning and development
- Labor supply and employment
- Political movements
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fellahin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-2007
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ray Bush
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80640150
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasantry--Egypt
- Egypt--Social life and customs