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"O...a highly original and valuable contribution on an important and most timely topic...No other book on Middle Eastern political economy matches this one in combining clarity of focus and breadth of geographic coverage." - Robert Bianchi. An international group of specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts in a wide range of countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Although privatization and liberalization are frequently regarded as economic measures, the contributors demonstrate that it is the politics of such reforms that often determines the success or failure of economic policy changes. The countries under review share a variety of economic and political characteristics, yet are sufficiently different in their response to the call for privatization to constitute useful cases for comparative political and economic analysis. Countries studied include Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Algeria. The contributors are Abdel-Monem Said Aly, Laurie A. Brand, Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, Iliya Harik, Fred H. Lawson, Marcie J. Patton, Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Khaled Fouad Sherif, Regina M. Soos, Denis J. Sullivan, and Dirk Vandewalle..
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The public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization, claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan), this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing, the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery, focusing on participatory approaches, education theory and pluralism..
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Deals with the restructuring and changing pattern of employment relations in one of Britain's newly privatized water companies The text analyzes the impact of privatization on work organization and employment relations, using the water industry as a case study to explore general principles..
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