Rewriting the Social Contract: The Social Fund and Egypt's Politics of Retrenchment

The politics surrounding retrenchment and social protection in the Middle East have been obscured by a broad ideological consensus that civil society has replaced the state as the site of social provisioning since the nineties. Contrary to the dominant “state retreat” narrative, the adoption of neo-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: El-Meehy, Asya
Other Authors: Sandbrook, Richard
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32026