Structural Changes of the Egyptian Industry

industrial sector

industrialization

productivity

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate in a summarized from the changes in the profile of Egyptian industry during the period 1952- 1968. This is done from the macro-economic point of view. The conclusions of evaluation are modestly enough to give some directions to be noticed in drawing up the strategy for the future industrialization of the country during the remaining early stages of industrialization. The term industry in the present paper includes mining, quarrying and manufacturing branches of industry. The classification of industry into branches is done according to ISIC (2) But to give the stress to the main essence of the structural change without unusefull details about each branch, manufacturing branches are grouped, according to some different criteria, to certain categories. For instance, according to