EGYPT'S SOCIAL FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT: THE LOCAL PRODUCTION OF NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the impact of the neoliberal structural adjustment program on the redefinition of the state-society relations by focusing on the Social Fund for Development in Egypt. Even though the Social Fund for Development was established in concurrence with neoliberal economic paradigms, the Mubarak regime's internal dynamics had a great influence on the functioning of the Social Fund for Development in Egypt. The regime's attempt of keeping its authoritarian structure and maintaining its patronage networks were the most prominent internal dynamics. Based on the fieldwork research conducted in Cairo and Beni Suef, this article specifically focuses on Social Fund for Development's Small Enterprise Development Organization (SEDO) in order to examine the effect of the regime's structural variables on Egypt's political economy during the process of the implementation of the structural adjustment program. age.