Author: Owen, Roger ; & Pamuk, Sevket
Title: A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century
Description: Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, (1998). orig.wrappers. 23x14cm, xviii, 310 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This text offers an examination of the economic history of the principal Arab countries, Turkey and Israel since 1918. Using the state as its major economic analysis, it charts the growth of national income and issues of welfare and distribution over two periods, 1918-1945 and 1945-1990. Important trends are explored, including the patterns of colonial economic management, import substitution, the impact of the 1970s oil boom, and the current process of liberalization and structural adjustment

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