Economic Opportunity and Inequality as Contributing Factors to the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia...

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" Economic Opportunity and Inequality as Contributing Factors to the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt "
Ian Gatward Banuazizi, Ali; Erickson, Jennifer L.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803499
Doc. No	:	TL48290
Call number	:	‭1700843630;‮ ‬1595125‬
Main Entry	:	Santos Santana, Nievelyn
Title & Author	:	Economic Opportunity and Inequality as Contributing Factors to the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt\ Ian GatwardBanuazizi, Ali; Erickson, Jennifer L.
College	:	Boston College
Date	:	2015
Degree	:	M.A.
field of study	:	GSAS - Political Science
student score	:	2015
Page No	:	113
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-93181-5
Abstract	:	This study will take an economic historical approach to the Arab Spring in an attempt to discover why citizens across the Middle East and North Africa rose up against their respective governments and demand change. The study will focus, more specifically, on Egypt and Tunisia where the revolutions were successful in overthrowing Ben Ali and Mubarak. It will be shown that the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia as well as regionally was primarily the result of decades of economic stagnation and regression for the vast majority of citizens as well a notable increase in the levels of education across the populations. A plethora of concrete statistics, including but not limited to the Gini coefficient, unemployment rates, and GDP per capita, all combine to show that the Middle East and North Africa was not only a highly unequal place but also one where citizens found ample reason to demand meaningful change.
Subject	:	Political science
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Arab;Economic;Egypt;Inequality;Opportunity;Spring;Tunisia
Added Entry	:	Banuazizi, Ali; Erickson, Jennifer L.
Added Entry	:	GSAS - Political ScienceBoston College