ABSTRACT
The principal aim of this paper is to make a general survey of the attitudes of certain leading British officials in Egypt towards the development of the economy between 1882 and 1922. But in so doing an effort will also be made to describe the effects of some of the policies pursued, particularly in those areas where they exercised a deep and long-lasting influence on future economic progress. This may well seem too ambitious an undertaking. It could be argued, with justice, that the subject is too important and too complex to be dealt with in so brief a compass. Nevertheless it seems that some advantage might be gained from treating the period of British management of the Egyptian economy as a whole. In this way it becomes possible to draw attention not only to the ways in which policies developed over the years but also to a certain overall continuity of approach to Egypt’s economic problems.
