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Die Verträge bestimmten die Verteilung der Einkommen auf die Bürger mittels Arbeitsplätzen im Staatsdienst, Subventionen, Transfers, freier Gesundheitsfürsorge und Bildung, Wohnraum und Privilegien. Dies galt als Ausgleich für mangelnde politische Partizipation und Transparenz in Politik, Verwaltung und Justiz.
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The old social contracts of MENA countries were based on external rent income from oil, gas, gold and phosphate exports, geo-strategic rents (such as Suez Canal user fees for Egypt), remittances and development co-operation. The contracts stipulated the distribution of income to citizens through the provision of government jobs, subsidies, transfers, free health care and education, housing and privileges as compensation for the lack of political participation and transparency in politics, administration and the judiciary. But with growing populations and declining state revenues, governments became less able to fulfil their contractual obligations and had to focus spending increasingly on strategically important social groups. Citizens still had no real voice in politics, which finally drove them to the streets calling for “Bread! Freedom! Social justice!” in the 2011 Arab uprisings.
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