The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries

Comprising both extremely rich and very poor countries the Arab region is of unique variety. This book explores the relations between rich and poor Arab countries, presenting papers on Arab integration efforts, the impact of oil prices on the South and least developed Arab countries in particular, the co-operation of poor Arabs with the EEC, basic needs, agricultural policies, intra-Arab migration, differences in ideologies and health systems, Islamic banking, and the unsuitability of IMF policies for poor Arab countries.

Inhalt
Notes on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Rich Arabs and Poor Arabs: An Introduction to Intra-Arab Issues; K.Raffer & M.A.Mohamed Salih - The Effects of Changes of Oil-Prices on Peripheral Net-Importers: A Crude Estimate with Special Reference to LDACs; K.Raffer - Some Aspects of the Gulf Cooperation Council's Relationship with LDACs; S.Koppers - Maghreb Conflicts, Socio-Economic Crisis and Unity; T.Melasuo - The Effects of the Lom Conventions on LDACs; V.Wulf - Agricultural Development in the Arab World: Achievements and Constraints; H.F.Jumah - Food Security in the Sudan: The Need for a Regional Approach; M.P.van Dijk - Survival Strategies and the State in Somalia; G.Braun - Somalia: The Gulf Link and Adjustment; V.Jamal - 'Structural Adjustment' or Debt Relief: The Case of Arab LLDCs; K.Raffer - Migration from Rural Sudan to the Oil-Rich Arab Countries; M.A.M.Alnagarabi - Impacts of Male Outmigration on Women: A Case Study of Kutum; E.Grawert - The Two Yemens: Ideology and Variations in Socio-Economic Development; M.A.M.Salih - Some Aspects of Islamic Banking in LDACs, Reflections on the Faisal Islamic Bank, Sudan; B.A.Ibrahim - A Comparison of the Health Sector in Kuwait and Somalia; A.Klaas & M.Galaty - Index