Reflections on neoliberal policy: a critical insight into recent development practices in Egypt and Morocco
For a number of years, western states and international institutions provided
financial assistance to the developing countries and promoted solutions to political inequality based on two main principles. The first was related to the notion of economic liberalization, which would unfold the potentials of the
market and minimize the role of the state in the economic sphere. The second
was that western support to the embryonic civil societies of the developing
world would give voice to the populations of these countries and would
change the nature of authoritative political regimes. These ideas continue to
inform the debate about the development of north African countries. This
paper presents and analyzes two nations in north Africa, Egypt and Morocco,
in terms of how they exploited the global economic situation and whether
they benefited from the openness of the markets. Reference is made to the fact
that some political freedoms were initiated in those countries, but they were
not democratized. Therefore, the paper critically examines and distinguishes
the notion of economic liberalization from the idea of democratization by exploring the ways regimes handled fundamental notions of political equality.
- ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕIΣ: Αφουξενίδης, Α. & Κουρτέλης, Χ.
- ΕΤΟΣ: 2017
- ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΙΑ: Άρθρα σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά με κριτές
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑ: Αγγλικά