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Vol. 47 No 1 (2022): Afrique et développement: Special Issue from the Post-Colonialisms Today Project Lessons to Africa from Africa: Reclaiming Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies

3 - The Rocket in the Haystack: Between Nasser’s Developmental Vision and the Neo-Imperialist Mission

https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v47i1.1790
Kareem Megahed
Omar Ghannam
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3247-2171

Corresponding Author(s) : Omar Ghannam

o.ghannam@sjplatform.org

Afrique et développement, Vol. 47 No 1 (2022): Afrique et développement: Special Issue from the Post-Colonialisms Today Project Lessons to Africa from Africa: Reclaiming Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies

Résumé

Cet article évalue les efforts de Gamal Abdel Nasser pour transformer l'économie postcoloniale de l'Egypte avec ses politiques d'industrialisation, en tirant de ses réussites et de ses échecs des leçons utiles à la société contemporaine. En analysant les résultats par le biais d'indicateurs de la production industrielle, de schémas d'emploi, de productivité et des principaux bénéficiaires de la période post-indépendance, l'article critique l'approche graduelle de Nasser, l'affaiblissement des mouvements ouvriers et la nature limitative du « féminisme d'État », qui ont contribué à l'échec de l'indépendance économique et politique totale, conduisant à son effondrement final face à la résurgence impérialiste. Le projet d'industrialisation de Nasser, cependant, démontre la supériorité de l'intervention politique active, en particulier de la planification et de l'industrialisation par la substitution des importations, et suggère la nécessité de poursuivre la planification centrale, l'inclusion économique, l'autosuffisance et la production sociale dont l’objectif est la satisfaction des besoins matériels de la population dans la période moderne.

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Megahed, K. et Ghannam, O. 2022. 3 - The Rocket in the Haystack: Between Nasser’s Developmental Vision and the Neo-Imperialist Mission. Afrique et développement. 47, 1 (juin 2022). DOI:https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v47i1.1790.
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Kareem Megahed

Political economy, history researcher / Post-Colonialisms Today researcher.
Email: k.megahed@sjplatform.org

Omar Ghannam

Political economy researcher / Post-Colonialisms Today researcher.
Email: o.ghannam@sjplatform.org

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