Book
Investors and workers in the western desert of Egypt: an exploratory survey
American University in Cairo Press • 15 • Published In 1992 • Pages: viii, 88
By: Sherbiny, Naiem A., Cole, Donald P., Girgis, Nadia Makary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report on economic development in Egypt's Western Desert based on a survey of 125 entrepreneurs and 182 workers in both urban and rural areas, including Marsa Matrouh, Wadi el Natroun, Sadat City, and South Tahrir. Entrepreneurs and workers are both Egyptians from the Nile valley and delta region and local Bedouins. Unfortunately, in most of the report the sample is not broken down by ethnic group, although most of the Bedouin investment (but not necessarily employment) is in the traditional sectors of agriculture and livestock. The other economic sectors examined are industry, trade, services, contracting, mining, and tourism. The researchers asked information regarding individual and family profiles, migration profiles, community services, socio-economic change, conflict, education, capital investment, costs of living, water needs, government regulations, production costs, and marketing. The researchers end their report with a list of recommendations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Production and supply
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Individual enterprise
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Libyan Bedouin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Desert, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Naiem A. Sherbiny, Donald P. Cole, Nadia Makary Girgis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins