Mehmed Ali’s industrialization prefigured Japan and Russia’s state-led growth models

Evidence

In this way one of the earliest, most ambitious development plans outside Europe came to a dramatic end. After being one of the first countries to promote industrialization outside Europe in a manner that “partly prefigured the models of state-induced growth championed by Japan and Czarist Russia during the latter half of the 19th century,” Egypt was reduced to something like a mere colony of the British Empire. Not before another century had passed would Egypt witness any establishments of the size of those founded by Mehmed Ali. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 79

Categorization

• XREF: Direct comparative point to Meiji Japan and Czarist Russia’s later state-led industrialization.