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Egypt's Open Door Economic policy: An Attempt at Economic Integration in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Osama Hamed
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Abstract

Although some may assert that it is too early to assess the impact of Anwar al-Sadat's liberalization policies on the Egyptian economy, I believe there is enough evidence to measure the important trends that have arisen in their wake. And while the statistics and conclusions may be regarded as tentative, they delineate a picture.

“There is a smell of money around this place.” With this sentence J. R. Frickers, head of Mobil Oil in Egypt, gives us a feeling for the atmosphere that prevailed in Egypt in 1974. The oil price hike of December 23, 1973, created billions of-dollars in surplus funds for Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil-producing states.

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Research Article
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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NOTES

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5 World Bank, Statistical Appendix, p. 26.

6 World Bank, I, p.24.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., p.45.

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10 Ibid., p.43.

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25 Ibid.

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30 Ibid.

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