This book is a highly valuable contribution to the current debate on how to achieve stabilization and structural adjustment programs in the Middle East presenting widely differing country profiles." -Digest of Middle East Studies This book is an excellent collection of ten country case-studies by well-known Middle East political scientists... " -MESA Bulletin ... a highly original and valuable contribution on an important and most timely topic.... combines clarity of focus and breadth of geographic coverage." -Robert Bianchi International specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and North Africa.