This text provides an analysis of virtually all of the major economic problems of Egypt: their origin, development and the prospect of solving them. It presents current economic problems in a wider historical context and shows their relationship to current social issues, including the growth of religious fanaticism. The book also contains a critique of the "Structural Adjustment" programme of reform, which constitutes modern conventional wisdom. This text should be of use not only to scholars and students of development in Egypt and the Middle East, but also to those occupied with other Third World countries.
