The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a ""stylized fact"" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and technological change on the relationship

Intro -- The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Popular History -- Crafts, Protests, and Guilds in Egypt -- Unevenness under Capitalism -- Restructuring and Political Contention, 1805-1914 -- Structure and Scope --...

This volume broadens the scope of 'comparative capitalism' within the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) tradition. It endorses the employment of multiple perspectives, including critical political economy, institutionalist systems of capitalism, structuralist-dependency scholarship and world-systems...

This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East. It argues that one of the main causes of the slow and stagnated economic development in the region is high military expenditure perpetuated by strong grips of armies on the politics of the region

This book looks at the provision of finance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by the IMF and World Bank in return for economic liberalization, exploring the political motivations of funding and geo-politics in recipients. The effectiveness of funding is questioned, with evidence from...