Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East. (book reviews)

This collection of essays is a timely assessment of the economic reform process undertaken in most countries of the Middle East in the 1980s. While displaying a diversity of theoretical perspectives, it offers a handy summary of reforms, country by country, throughout virtually the entire region, excepting Israel and Lebanon, that had once belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The only other major Middle Eastern countries not included are Iran and Morocco. Egypt gets the most attention, with four articles, covering more than one-third of the book; but Fred Lawson and Kiren Chaudhry shed more ...