Poverty in Egypt: Human Needs and Institutional Capacities [Hardcover]

Saad Z. Nagi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0739101889 | ISBN-13: 978-0739101889

This book addresses the effects of massive global trends, unfolding over the past several decades, on poverty and the poor. Nagi explains how the slow adaptation of social institutions--economic, political, educational, family, and health related--in developing societies, and those emerging from central command economies, is hampering reform measures designed to better integrate these cultures into the evolving world economy. Examining the change in income distribution and rates of poverty, as well as using historical and comparative analysis, this empirically grounded research yields conceptual and methodological conclusions that are central to understanding the complex problem of poverty in Egypt and elsewhere.

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About the Author

Saad Z. Nagi is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Ohio State University. He is the author of Disability and Rehabilitation: Legal, Clinical, and Self-Concepts and Measurement and the coeditor of three other books on disability and other social issues.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Lexington Books (November 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739101889
• ISBN-13: 978-0739101889
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,086,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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