Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development (RLE Economy of Middle East)

Taylor & Francis

Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development (RLE Economy of Middle East)Profile of an Energy Economy and Investment\nAuthor(s): Ragaei el Mallakh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138810099, 978-1138810099\nSynopsis\nSaudi Arabia is one of the most controversial and least known of the Arab nations. A land of massive contrasts between its densely populated cities and its vast expanses of desert; between the recent poverty of its villages and the massive wealth created by oil, which is drawing a labour force from most of the neighbouring countries; between the aggressive technocratic and industrial thrust forward and the strongly traditionalist Islamic basis of the ruling ideologies it has progressed to world prominence in a matter of years after centuries of little or no change. The change is not so much a surge, or even a thrust, as a rush into the industrialized and wealthy world. This book analyzes the problems and achi.