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Economic Liberalisation, Social Capital and Islamic Welfare Provision

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  1. Jane Harrigan
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  2. Hamed El-Said
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Islamic Social Welfare and Political Islam in the Arab World

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 1-7

  3. Social Capital, Faith-Based Welfare and Islam

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 8-26

  4. ‘You Reap What You Plant’: The Historical Evolution of Social Networks in Jordan

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 27-55

  5. Faith-Based Welfare and Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Movement

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 56-77

  6. Economic Liberalisation, Poverty and Faith-Based Welfare Provision in Egypt 1991–2006

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 78-110

  7. Economic Reform, Social Welfare, Civic Society and Islamists in Morocco

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 111-144

  8. Structural Reform and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Tunisia: What Role for Civil Society?

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 145-175

  9. Conclusion and Synthesis: What Can be Learnt from our Four Country Studies?

    • Jane Harrigan, Hamed El-Said
    Pages 176-184

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-214
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This book looks at two aspects of Islamic activity in the Middle East and North Africa, the development of social capital and the provision of welfare services, within the context of economic liberalisation programmes to see whether the retrenchment of the state under liberalisation has created a space for Islamic-based activities.

About the authors

JANE HARRIGAN is Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. She has studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and at Harvard and was previously a Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, UK. She is co-author of the two-volume book Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending (with Paul Mosley and John Toye) and author of From Dictatorship to Democracy: Economic Policy in Malawi 1964-2000. She has written extensively on World Bank and IMF programmes in developing countries with a focus on both sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. She also works on issues concerning aid, agricultural policy and food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
 
HAMED EL-SAID is a Reader in the Political Economy of the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK. He was as a member of the Royal Scientific Society, then research arm of the office of His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal. He published intensively on MENA and is the co-editor of Management and International Business Issues in Jordan: The Potential of an Arab Singapore? (with Kip Becker). He is currently on secondment to the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), where he works as an Associate Expert on Radicalisation and Extremism.

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