Chapter 3
The State, Foreign Aid and thePolitical Economy of Shelter inEgypt
Mohamed Hamza
INTRODUCTION
During the last three decades the complex relationship between national development strategies and shelter policies in the developing world has been recognized. Shelter provision appears to have been strongly driven by external, as well as internal, forces, neither impacting nor exerting pressure in isolation from the other. This interaction is crucial in determining policies and outcomes. In this context, the state became a mediator between external and domestic interests. Externally, it had to respond to international donors pressing agendas ...
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