The author describes the problems of food supply for a rapidly growing population, reviews the effects of water and land shortage, and considers the impact of globalization on Egypt's attempt to industrialize. The structural difficulties besetting Egypt's economy - population explosion, a seriously negative balance of payments, massive debt, unemployment, brain drain and corruption - have already been eased by the rise of tourism which is so vulnerable to Islamist terrorism.
| ISBN: | 9781860645471 |
| Publication date: | 26th September 2003 |
| Author: | Fouad N Ibrahim |
| Publisher: | I.B. Tauris an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | International Library of Human Geography |
| Genres: |
Economic geography Economics |