The Arab world increasingly falls into two divisions, the capital-poor and the capital-rich countries (where capital means, in essence, oil). In the capital-ric

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R. Paul Shaw has travelled widely in the Arab world, obtaining data and gathering impressions first-hand from national and local planners. In this book, he iden

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 achieveme

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