Capsule Review July 1976 Issue

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

by Oddvar Aresvik, Oddvar Aresvik, Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil
Reviewed by John C. Campbell

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The Agricultural Development of Jordan

By Oddvar Aresvik
Praeger, 1976
375 pp. $27.50
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The Agricultural Development of Turkey

By Oddvar Aresvik
Praeger, 1975
220 pp. $16.50
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Development, Income Distribution and Social Change in Rural Egypt, 1952-1970: A Study in the Political Economy of Agrarian Transition

By 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.