Coping with adjustment and economic crisis in Egypt's countryside
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Bush (0000-0003-2829-551X, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 66 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056249508704155 |
| OpenAlex | W2022865230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
There are two strategic silences in the debates relating to economic liberalisation in Egypt and especially to the current agricultural strategy. These refer to the role of the peasantry or fellahin and to the position of women. Little is being said about the effect of the economic crisis on Egypt's rural producers and the rural households where women are enduring the most harsh consequences of structural adjustment. Despite a Social Fund for Development, intended to soften the blow for the poor resulting from adjustment (and presently approximately a very low $US600 million ‐ about $US10 for each Egyptian) debates inside Egypt remain largely at the level of the macro‐economy and national planning. Concerns of policy makers in the state or international agencies, like the World Bank and USAID (US Agency for International Development), are not focused upon social and economic conditions in the rural areas nor on the possible social consequences of adjustment (World Bank, 1992; USAID, 1992). Policy makers and planners are simply not addressing the stresses and strains that rural households are experiencing during economic crisis and the ways in which the fellahin are promoting strategies to sustain and transform their livelihoods. This article is a preliminary assessment of how Egypt's current economic crisis is affecting two villages in the contrasting Governorates of Giza and Dakhalia. We also begin an assessment of whether the strategy pursued by the international agencies, and the state, is likely to address the problems expressed by the fellahin and what the consequences of the current strategy may have for rural dwellers. Our argument is that official preoccupation with issues of markets and prices, and the supply of inputs, as a vehicle for economic recovery, neglects the way in which people's relations of production and reproduction are sustained and the uneven level of people's productive capabilities
Agency (philosophy · Agriculture · Business · Coping (psychology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Liberalization · Livelihood · Political science · Rural area · Sociology · State (computer science · Structural adjustment · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global Economic and Social Development · Land Rights and Reforms
Class, State and the Reversal of Egypt's Agrarian Reform
Development, Income Distribution and Social Change in Rural Egypt (1952-1970)
Agrarian change in Egypt
Famine and household coping strategies
Adjustment in Egypt? The political economy of reform
Household income and child survival in Egypt
Crisis in Egypt
Development and Social Change in Rural Egypt
The Anomaly of the African Peasantry
Are African Peasants Self-Sufficient
The Debate on African Peasantries
A 'New Paradigm' for Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |