For a description of the first years of oil in Kuwait see Violet Dickson, Forty Years in Kuwait (Allen & Unwin, 1970) Chapters 6 and 7, p. 144 f. A brief assessment of oil's economic impact is given in the IBRD report on The Economic ...
A Political Economy Of The Middle East: State, Class, And Economic Development
This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region.
This book, a comprehensive study of twelve of the economies of key countries of the Arab world, has three main objectives: to record the developmental achievements and failings of each country; to examine the main issues arising in the ...
This is the fifth volume in a series on the Middle East. It focuses on the manner in which the character of the state affects economic policies. It also looks...
The focus of this book is on the Gulf region as an area with its own problems of social, economic and political development.
In this book, he identifies population and manpower problems that are likely to become more serious and more difficult to solve if they are neglected at this early stage of Arab development.
Although it is not richly endowed with material resources its political significance in the region gives it considerable authority. This book focuses on the economic development of Jordan over the last decade.
Through discussing the region’s problems of the past as well as the present and future challenges, this book provides students with a compact and manageable review of the state of economic development in the Middle East.
Middle East Economies in the 1970s: A Comparative Approach
This book surveys the labour markets of the Arab world state by state, evaluating them by demand and supply analysis, and analysing the different elements in trends of employment.