By J. Alterman
From the floor up the tale of ignored possibilities, combined messages, and mutual frustrations in American relatives with Egypt at a seminal time. unparalleled in its drawing on Egyptian reliable assets, Hopes Dashed sheds new mild at the problems and demanding situations of a nascent courting characterised via neglected possibilities, combined messages, and mutual frustrations. although necessary the intentions of these at the floor, their hope for Egyptian financial improvement was once stymied by way of bureaucratic stumbling blocks either in Egypt and the U.S.. And as Egypt grew to become embroiled within the chilly struggle, coverage judgements more and more have been made at greater degrees through officers extra keen on geopolitical and Arab-Israeli matters and no more how U.S. information may aid the family political economic climate of Egypt. Alterman compellingly indicates how the pursuits of either international locations diverged to ultimately undermine an early American test at financial information.
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In view of the need of the underdeveloped countries for capital, the Bank cannot be said to be meeting the challenge of the circumstances,” the authors concluded, their understatement indicating their displeasure. 25 The UN study also came down harshly on the upper classes in poor countries whose members had been hoarding their profits rather than investing them in national development—particularly in the Middle East and Latin America. In some of these countries, the hoards were estimated to represent perhaps ten percent of the national income.
They were popular among parents because they afforded advantages to their pupils, exposing them to Western modes of thought in a world in which progress seemed increasingly to come from the West. Teachers were aware that proselytization among Muslim students would jeopardize their entire educational enterprise in Egypt, and thus the religious content of the schools remained rather low. 40 Beginning in the twentieth century, the affiliates of secular American philanthropic organizations entered the international scene.
Westernized elites—many of whom had gained education and experience under colonial rule—controlled the governmental apparatuses. While they might take action to improve peasant life, in such cases they did so paternalistically rather than empathetically. Neither anxious to share power with untutored peasants nor truly understanding of the social structures extant in the countryside, the division was, in the 1950s, likely to grow wider with the passage of time. Such a trend would retard democratization, undermine political stability, and preclude the sort of peasant mobilization envisioned under the rubric of community development.