Abstract

Prevailing poverty and culminating social crises in Egypt are the final products of development failure in the last 50 years, first in the context of state control and then the restructuring of uncontrolled capitalism. This bad mixture has ended up with less accumulation of all forms of capital assets and an uneven access to those assets, which resulted in deprivation of the absolute majority and hence less opportunities, less freedom and low level of well being.
About Author : Mohammed Atif Kishk, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Agriculture Minia University, Minia – Egypt

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