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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 four MENA countries.
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JANE HARRIGAN is Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. She has studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and at Harvard and was previously a Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, UK. She is co-author of the two-volume book Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending (with Paul Mosley and John Toye) and author of From Dictatorship to Democracy: Economic Policy in Malawi 1964-2000. She has written extensively on World Bank and IMF programmes in developing countries with a focus on both sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. She also works on issues concerning aid, agricultural policy and food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
HAMED EL-SAID is a Reader in the Political Economy of the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. He was as a member of the Royal Scientific Society, then research arm of the office of His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal. He published intensively on MENA and is the co-editor of Management and International Business Issues in Jordan: The Potential of an Arab Singapore? (with Kip Becker). He is currently on secondment to the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), where he works as an Associate Expert on Radicalisation and Extremism.
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Book Title: Aid and Power in the Arab World
Book Subtitle: IMF and World Bank Policy-Based Lending in the Middle East and North Africa
Editors: Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001597
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Jane Harrigan and Hamed El-Said 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21196-4Published: 25 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30324-3Published: 25 February 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00159-7Published: 25 February 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic Policy, Accounting/Auditing, International Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, International Political Economy