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

Jane Harrigan and Hamed El-Said

Chapter 5 in Economic Liberalisation, Social Capital and Islamic Welfare Provision, 2009, pp 78-110 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter looks at the social welfare effects of Egypt’s economic liberalisation programme in the form of the Economic Recovery and Structural Adjustment Programme (ERSAP) that was launched in 1991. It assesses the effect of the programme on Egypt’s well established welfare state and looks at trends in poverty and other dimensions of social welfare during the reform period. The hypothesis we wish to explore is whether or not the economic reform programme led to increased poverty and declining social welfare through the retrenchment of state welfare provision. In turn, we wish to explore whether this opened up a space which encouraged greater alternative sources ofwelfareprovision, especiallyfaith-based welfareprovision. Totheextent that this took place, we also assess the state’s response to see whether it was supportive or antagonistic towards such alternative forms of welfare provision.

Keywords: Social Capital; Real Wage; Cash Transfer; Economic Liberalisation; Welfare Provision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137001580_5

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