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Bread Subsidies in Egypt: Choosing Social Stability or Fiscal Responsibility

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  • John William Salevurakis

    (The American University in Cairo, 113 Kasr el Aini Street, Cairo, 11511, Egypt, jsalevurakis@aucegypt.edu)

  • Sahar Mohamed Abdel-Haleim

    (The American University in Cairo, 113 Kasr el Aini Street, Cairo, 11511, Egypt, saharmoh@aucegypt.edu)

Abstract

Bread subsidies contribute greatly to social stability in Egypt, yet there exist academic and political tendencies to abandon the system in the interest of market-based efficiency. This represents a shift in contemporary economic ideology historically focused upon maintaining calm after Cairo's 1977 bread riots. Further, international pressure to `liberalize` the Egyptian economy paradoxically conflicts with Western desires to suppress religious fundamentalism in the region. These incongruities are largely ignored by Egyptian and Western research.

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  • John William Salevurakis & Sahar Mohamed Abdel-Haleim, 2008. "Bread Subsidies in Egypt: Choosing Social Stability or Fiscal Responsibility," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 40(1), pages 35-49, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:40:y:2008:i:1:p:35-49
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    1. Ahmed Raza ul MUSTAFA* & Mohammad NISHAT**, 2017. "ROLE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN POVERTY REDUCTION IN PAKISTAN: A Quantitative Approach," Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Research Centre, vol. 27(1), pages 67-88.
    2. Cihan Tuğal, 2012. "Fight or Acquiesce? Religion and Political Process in Turkey's and Egypt's Neoliberalizations," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 43(1), pages 23-51, January.

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