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The Agricultural Development of Jordan; The Agricultural Development of Turkey; Development, Income Distribution and Social Change in Rural Egypt, 1952-1970: A Study in the Political Economy of Agrarian Transition

Oddvar Aresvik
Oddvar Aresvik
Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
July 1976
The Agricultural Development of Jordan
Oddvar Aresvik
Praeger
1976
375 pp.
$27.50
The Agricultural Development of Turkey
Oddvar Aresvik
Praeger
1975
220 pp.
$16.50
Development, Income Distribution and Social Change in Rural Egypt, 1952-1970: A Study in the Political Economy of Agrarian Transition
Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil
Cambridge University Press
1976
157 pp.
$15.50
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Two detailed studies on Jordan and Turkey, especially useful for reference, by an economist who spent several years in the Near East for the Ford Foundation and the World Bank, plus a comparable study of Egyptian agriculture following the reforms of the Nasser period.

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