Migration, Mechanization, And Agricultural Labor Markets In Egypt

Migration, Mechanization, And Agricultural Labor Markets In Egypt
Author: Alan Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429716443

After a long period of stability, Egypt’s agricultural sector experienced sudden change due to the 1973 oil price increases and Anwar Sadat’s Open Door economic policies. Workers left rural Egypt for the cities and high-wage jobs in the oil-exporting countries. The resulting “labor shortage†and rising real wages in agriculture coincided with a

Migration, Mechanization, and Agricultural Labor Markets in Egypt

Migration, Mechanization, and Agricultural Labor Markets in Egypt
Author: Alan Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367167110

This book addresses the impact of labor emigration, the structure and functioning of agricultural labor markets, and the causes and consequences of farm mechanization in Egypt. It argues that agricultural mechanization and government policy are very closely intertwined.