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Title: | Politics and development in foreign aid: US economic assistance to Egypt, 1975-82 |
Author: | Weinbaum, Marvin G. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Middle East Journal |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 636-655 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Egypt United States |
Subject: | development cooperation |
External link: | http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1290827493 |
Abstract: | An economic liberalization-cum-political strategy embarked upon by President Anwar Sadat in the wake of Egypt's 1973 war determined that the advanced Western countries and the US in particular would become major sources for aid and investment. From the outset, the US assistance program has been multifaceted and broadgauged. Funds go mainly to the public sector, though support for the private sector, begun in 1977, has gained increased favor. The economic course presupposes a larger, vigorous private sector, a stabilized and improved public sector, and greater decentralization of development decisions. Egypt is expected to become an even more highly congested urban society with adequate if minimal public services and relatively low real income, but a system that has better learned to use its natural assets and human resources. Egypt's limited progress in achieving these goals, and the role of US assistance, with its distinct political and economic motives, in fostering this development, is the subject of this essay. Notes, tab. |