Synopses & Reviews
This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available statistical data, and answers larger questions concerning the long-term growth of the countries, first in the colonial period, then in the periods characterized by planning and development, followed by the first steps toward liberalization and structural adjustment. It evaluates government policy in promoting the protection of imports and in advancing market economies. Policies employed by the oil-producing states to build new institutional structures based on near unlimited supplies of capital and labor are also examined. The Middle East economies are placed in their proper international context, and questions of colonialism and labor migration are discussed. The authors evaluate where the Middle Eastern economies are now, and speculate about how they may develop in the future.
Review
Well written, accessible, judicious--the fruit of years of distinguished study of the region. -- Chun-Fang Yu - The Journal of Asian Studies
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This book is the production of two of the most important economic historians of the Middle East now engaged in writing and research. -- Alan Richards, University of California, Santa Cruz
About the Author
Roger Owen is A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University.
Harvard University
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
General Introduction
PART I: 1918-1945
Introduction to Part I
1. Turkey 1918-1945
2. Egypt 1918-1945
3. The Economies of the British and French Mandates 1918-1945
4. The States of the Arabian Peninsula 1918-1945
PART II: 1946-1990
Introduction to Part II
5. Turkey 1946-1990
6. Egypt 1946-1990
7. Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq 1946-1990
8. The Economies of Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank/ Gaza 1946-1990
9. The States of the Arabian Peninsula 1946-1990
Epilogue and Cocclusion: THE 1990s AND BEYOND
Tables
Statistical Appendix
Bibliography
Index