DDP 692. Salah Moustafa El-Sabaa. "Rethinking the Role of Government: A Framework for Coping with Globalization." April 1999. 20 pp.

An examination of the potential role of the Government of Egypt in the context of increasing globalization of financial markets, manufacturing and agriculture, and the information and transportation infrastructures on which they depend, suggests the need for a multi-faceted strategy for longer range involvement in the world economy. Three components of such a strategy are suggested: first, establish explicit national objectives against which resource allocation and other governmental decisions can be assessed on a continuing basis; second, reform the legislative, judicial and administrative institutions to enhance the nation's ability to achieve its identified goals; and third, develop and exploit Egypt's unique resources that can contribute to and enhance the nation's role in the global economy.

Keywords: Globalization, Development Planning, Government Expenditures, Institutional Reform, Administrative Development.

JEL Codes: D6, H5, H11, K20, O20

Salah Moustafa El-Sabaa is an assistant professor at the School of Business Economics, The American University in Cairo (AUC). He is a 1989 graduate of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management managed by the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Institute for International Development and also holds a Ph.D. from University of Southern California, Los Angeles.