Egypt's 'Orderly Transition'? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment - 0 views
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a critique of these financial packages needs to be seen as much more than just a further illustration of Western hypocrisy
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a sustained effort to restrain the revolution within the bounds of an ‘orderly transition’
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Egypt is, in many ways, shaping up as the perfect laboratory of the so-called post-Washington Consensus, in which a liberal-sounding ‘pro poor’ rhetoric – principally linked to the discourse of democratization – is used to deepen the neoliberal trajectory of the Mubarak-era
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