Change and Development in the Gulf

Processes of change, stagnation and development in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council are analyzed in this book. The contributors show impact of oil revenues on population change and social development and on redefining the socio-economic role of the state. Oil could open venues for industrialization and development. However, lack of population policies, problems of human resources development, the rather slow change in gender relations and in political systems and heavy spending on militarization, it is argued, could impede development endeavour.

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PAUL AARTS Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam KHALID M. ABDALLA Department of Economics, University of Bahrain, Manama OSAMA SAAD AHMED Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Manama, Bahrain BAQUER SALMAN AL-NAJAR Department of Sociology, Manama University of Bahrain FATIMA S. AL-SHAMSI Department of Sociology, Manama University of Bahrain ELEANOR DOUMATO Department of Economics, University of United Arab Emirates, UAE ADIL OSMAN GEBRIEL Consultant, Amsterdam, Netherlands CHARLOTTE HEATH Department for International Development, London SERGE HERZOG Ministry of Defence, Geneva, Switzerland

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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Change and Development in the Gulf: An Overview of Major Issues; A. Abdelkarim Oil, Population Change and Social Development in the Gulf: Some Major Trends and Indicators; A. Abdelkarim PART ONE: OIL AND THE ECONOMY: DEPENDENCE AND DIVERSIFICATION The State in Oil Rentier Economies: the Case of Bahrain; K. Abdalla Industrial Strategies and Change in UAE During the 1980s; F. Al-Shamsi Diversification Through Industrialization: The Saudi Experience; O. Ahmed PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCES AND GENDER RELATIONS Population Policies in the Countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council; B. Al-Najar Overview of Major Issues in the Development of National Human Resources; A. Gebriel Women, Income Generation and Gender Relations in Rural Oman; C. Heath The Saudis and the Gulf War: Gender, Power and the Revival of the Religious Rights; E. Doumato PART THREE: POLITICAL CHANGE AND MILITARIZATION: IMPACT OF GULF WAR Post-War Kuwait and the Process of Democratization: The Persistency of Political Tribalism; P. Aarts Arms, Oil and Security in the Gulf; S. Herzog Index