Over the past fifty years Egypt has experienced a bewildering array of economic reforms. At the outbreak of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt had a relatively free market economy, but by the beginning of the 1960s the government had switched to economic planning and had almost full control over the economic infrastructure. However, the "socialist experiment" did not last very long. By the mid 1970s the market forces had taken a more significant role, reaching the peak of influence by the end of the decade and slowing in the 1980s. / To explain this change in economic policy, the Dependency school emphasizes the dominant role of external forces, and the Neo-classical school stresses the role of domestic forces. This study examined the arguments of both schools by investigating the relationship between change in economic policy on one side and trade flow, foreign aid, domestic economic performance, and elites' values on the other. Multiple regression technique was used to investigate this relationship. / The main conclusion of the study is that the values of the elites play a crucial role in determining the course of economic policy. The findings suggest that these values are an important intervening force between the country's economic orientation on one side and domestic economic performance, trade, and aid on the other. In other words, the impact of economic performance, trade, and aid on the country's economic policy is filtered through the values of the elites. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 1060. / Major Professor: Monte Palmer. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76341 |
| Contributors | Bahgat, Gawdat Gamil., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 208 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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