Conditions in Rural Egypt

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This essay presents the opinion of an ordinary citizen on peasant life in Egypt since the 1980s. It describes increased U.S influence, World Bank restructuring, removal of food subsidy and other aspects of national development schemes that aimed to help rural women. It emphasizes rural-urban split in a country that cannot afford a dual economy and ensures political stability.

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"An Egyptian Woman Comments on the Rural Standard of Living since the 1980s. Better relations between Egypt, Israel and the United States, had mixed results. For instance, women's groups in Egypt were aided by influences from abroad, and new investment in the rural sector, but this progress was short-lived. There was optimism to the mid-1980s, as the United States backed Egypt's social and economic development plan of investment in agriculture, health care and basic education. After 1990, however, Egypt fell prone to restructuring, as in other countries affected by the shift of the World Bank to do with removing debt, running economies according to cost-benefit analysis, towards less social spending."

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