Galal A. Amin
 
Nationality
  • Egyptian
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    Specialties/Expertise/Areas of Interest
  • Micro Economics
  • Economic Development
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Economics of the Middle East
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    Education
  • Ph.D. (Economics), London School of Economics, 1964
  • M.Sc. (Economics), London School of Economics,1961
  • Diploma in Public Law, Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 1957
  • Diploma in Economics, Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 1956
  • LL.B. Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 1955
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    Languages
  • Arabic   (Native Language)
  • English   (Excellent)
  • French   (Fair)
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    Employment History
  • American University in Cairo, Professor since 1979.
  • University of California at Los Angeles, Visiting Professor of
  • Economics, 1985/86 and 1978/79.
  • Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Economic Adviser, 1969-74.
  • Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University, Associate Professor of Economics, 1969-74.
  • Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University, Lecturer in Economics, 1964-69.
  • Council of States, Cairo, Legal Adviser, 1955-58.
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    Honors, Recognition
  • Award for Economics from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, 1981.
  • Order of Merit for the Sciences and Arts from the President of Egypt, 1977.
  • State Prize for Economics (Egypt), 1976.
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    Memberships
  • Member of the Egyptian Economic Society since 1964.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Economic Society, 1991-94.
  • Member of the Egyptian Society for Human Rights since 1978.
  • Member of the Arab Society for Human Rights since 1985.
  • Member of the Board of the Arab Society of Economic Research and Research Coordinator, 1995-97.
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    Select Publications


    A. English

    • Food Supply and Economic Development (London: F. Cass, 1966).
    • Urbanization and Economic Development (Arabic University of Beirut, 1977).
    • The Modernization of Poverty: A Study in the Political Economy of Growth in Nine Arab Countries (Brill: Leiden, 1974, reprinted 1981, and translated to Japanese, 1976).
    • Project Appraisal and Income Distribution in Developing Countries (co-edited with J.MacArthur) a special issue of World Development, Oxford, Feb.1978.
    • "Dependent Development," Alternatives, Amsterdam, Dec.1976.
    • "External Factors in the Reorientation of Egypt's Economic Policy," published in Kerr, M. and Yassin, E. (eds.): Rich and Poor States in the Middle East, ( Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982).
    • International Migration of Egyptian Labour (with E.T. Awny) (Ottawa: IDRC, 1985).
    • "Adjustment and Development": in El-Naggar, S. (ed.): Adjustment Policies and Development Strategies in the Arab World, IMF, 1987.
    • "Migration, Iflation and Social Mobility," in the Tripp, Charles Owen, R. (eds.): Egypt under Mubarak, (London: Routledge,1989).
    • "Towards and Egyptian Theory of Dependency," in Arab Economic Journal, No.1, Autumn, 1992.
    • Egypt's Economic Predicament, March, 1995 (Brill, Holland).
    B. Arabic
    • Introduction to Economic Analysis (Cairo: S.Wahba, 1966,70).
    • Introduction to Macro-Economic Theory (Cairo: S.Wahba, 1968,72).
    • A Critique of Marxism (Cairo: S.Wahba, 1970).
    • The Arab East and the West (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, four editions, 1979,80,81,83).
    • Egypt's Economic and Cultural Predicament (Cairo: Arab Center for Research and Publishing, 1983).
    • Development or Economic and Cultural Dependency? (Cairo: Cairo Publications, 1984).
    • Economy, Politics and Society in the Era of Liberalization (Cairo: Madbouli, 1984).
    • A History of Egypt's External Debt (Cairo: Ali Mukhtar Publishing House, 1988).
    • Towards a New Interpretation of Egypt's Economic and Social Crisis (Cairo: Madbouli Boolshop, 1989).
    • Egypt at Cross Roads (Cairo: Al-Mostaqbal Al-Arabi, 1990).
    • The Arabs and Kuwait's Predicament (Cairo: Madbouli, 1991).
    • Population and Development (Cairo: UN Population Fund and ILO, 1992).
    • Economic and Social Impact of Egyptian Labour Migration (Cairo: UN Population Fund and ILO, 1992).
    • The Soft State in Egypt (Cairo: Dar Sina, 1993).
    • Egypt's Economic Predicament (Cairo: Misr Arabya Publishing House, 1994).
    • Prominent People (London and Beirut: Riad El-Yayes).
    • Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?: A Social History of Egypt 1945-1995 (Cairo: Dar Al-Hilal,1998), obtained Prize for Best Book in Social Studies from the Egyptian Book Organization, January 1999.
    • The Arab Intellectuals and Israel (Cairo: Dar El-Shorouq, 1998).
    • Globalization (Cairo: Dar El-Maaref, 1998).
    • Globalization and Arab Development (forthcoming) (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 1999).
    C. Translations into Arabic
    • Jan Tinbergen, Central Planning (Cairo: Egyptian Society for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation, 1966).
    • Arthur Lewis, "Economic Development with Unlimited Supply of Labour," in Selected Articles on Economic Development and Planning (Cairo: Egyptian Society for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation, 1969).
    • The Willy Brandt Independent Committee for International Development, North-South: A Program for Survival (Kuwait: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, 1981).
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