{"id":15652,"date":"2011-05-31T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15652"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:39:25","slug":"adam-hanieh-egypt%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98orderly-transition%e2%80%99-international-aid-and-the-rush-to-structural-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15652","title":{"rendered":"Adam Hanieh: Egypt\u2019s \u2018Orderly Transition\u2019? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/pages\/contributors\/23108\">Adam Hanieh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the  front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate  the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of  the interim Egyptian government has been the object of intense debate in  the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Bank for  Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/05\/19\/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa\" target=\"_blank\">US President Obama\u2019s 19 May speech<\/a> on the Middle East and North Africa devoted much space to the question of Egypt\u2019s economic future \u2013 indeed, the <em>sole<\/em> concrete policy advanced in his talk concerned US economic relationships with Egypt. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g20-g8.com\/g8-g20\/g8\/english\/live\/news\/declaration-of-the-g8-on-the-arab-springs.1316.html\" target=\"_blank\">G8 meeting in France<\/a> held on 26 and 27 May continued this trend, announcing that up to US$20  billion would be offered to Egypt and Tunisia. When support from the  Gulf Arab states is factored into these figures, Egypt alone appears to  be on the verge of receiving around $15 billion in loans, investment and  aid from governments and the key international financial institutions  (IFI).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/pages\/index\/1711\/egypt\u2019s-\u2018orderly-transition\u2019-international-aid-and\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Egypt\u2019s \u2018Orderly Transition\u2019? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment&#8221; by Adam Hanieh<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Adam Hanieh Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of the interim Egyptian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-44s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15654,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}