| Description |
1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The research puzzle and central arguments -- Literature: business-state relations and networks in periods of reform -- Debating agency in comparative political economy -- Networks, organizations, and institutions during economic reforms -- Theorizing elite privilege: networks, capital, and brokerage -- Social, cultural, and cosmopolitan capital -- Brokerage: facilitating rent streams of cosmopolitan capital |
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Scope conditions and broader applications -- On methodology -- Data analysis -- Network analysis and sources -- Book outline and summary of arguments -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Providing context -- Egypt's waves of market liberalizing reforms, 1974-2004 -- Sadat's infitah, 1974 -- Mubarak's Structural Adjustment Program, 1991 -- The ECES (est. 1992): formalizing networks of "knowledge" -- The US-Egypt Presidents' Council (est. 1994) -- Future Generation Foundation (est. 1998) -- The National Democratic Party's Policies Committee (est. 2002) |
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The Businessmen Cabinet and "second wave of reforms," 2004-2011 -- The international development debate: from Washington to Cairo -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Reconceptualizing "business" and "state" in business-state relations -- Décor Amaar: micro to small-sized furniture enterprise -- Government assistance: conceptions of "the state" -- The banality of exclusion -- Weighing the benefits of informality -- El Arco Design: medium-sized furniture enterprise -- Government assistance for medium-sized firms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Developing Egypt's "SMEs": The Social Fund for Development |
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A macro-level view of reform era consequences on smaller firms -- Redefining the SFD under the Businessmen Cabinet -- Commercializing microfinance: from poverty reduction to profitmaking -- Loans as favors: SFD lending to ruling party clients -- The SFD bureaucracy: interpreting success -- "Legitimate dreams": accessing assistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: USAID's "private sector" projects: Planting the seeds of exclusion -- Privatizing the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI): (1994-1999) -- Assembling representation |
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Phase one: the "modern Talaat Harb" (October 1994-January 1997) -- Capitalizing on cosmopolitan capital -- Phase two: collapse and re-building of the FEI (January 1997-December 1999) -- Tracing the economic capital -- Creating the quasi-governmental bureaucracy and "expanding representation" -- Privatize or democratize?: Expedient priorities -- Organizational networks and webs of USAID funding -- The Egyptian Exporters' Association, aka ExpoLink (est. 1997) -- Tracing the social capital: the ExpoLink assemblage -- Evaluating export success and de facto exclusion |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Tracing the economic capital: the ExpoLink assemblage |
| Subject |
Corruption-Egypt-History-21st century
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Corruption-Egypt-History-20th century
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Business and politics-Egypt-History-21st century
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Business and politics-Egypt-History-20th century
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Businessmen-Political activity-Egypt
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Elite (Social sciences)-Egypt
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Egypt-Economic policy
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Egypt-Politics and government-1981-2011
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Egypt-Politics and government-2011-
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000485318 |
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1000485315 |
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