Author

Contributions

  • Pamuk, Şevket. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL368502M
  • ISBN-100674398300
  • OCLC Control Number39368452
  • Library of Congress Control Number98029099
  • Goodreads5669197
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  • LibraryThing368647

Classifications

  • DDC330.956/04
  • LCCHC415.15 .O935 1998

Description

This book on 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.

Subjects

Topics

Economic policyEconomic conditionsMiddle east, economic conditionsMiddle East -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

Places

Times

Other Editions

  • A history of Middle East economies in the twentieth centuryHarvard University Press1998-01-01

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