Routledge Library Editions: The Economy of the Middle East
Arab Industrial Integration: A Strategy for Development
1st Edition
By Elias Ghantus
January 25, 2018
The Arab countries are increasingly recognising their importance as a regional economic grouping. Given the highly skewed distribution of natural, human and financial resources, the course of economic development in the Arab countries seems to be interrelated. Through pooling their resources and ...
Arab Industrialisation and Economic Integration
1st Edition
By Roberto Aliboni
January 25, 2018
Independently commissioned by IAI, the three studies comprising this book examine inter-Arab industrial and economic cooperation. The first chapter analyses the industrial strategies, economic policies and attempts at harmonisation and cooperation of the Arab countries, providing a detailed picture...
Arab Manpower: The Crisis of Development
1st Edition
By J.S. Birks, C.A. Sinclair
January 25, 2018
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-rich countries shortage of labour is the chief constraint on growth. In the capital-poor countries analysis of the labour market is equally ...
Arab Monetary Integration: Issues and Prerequisites
1st Edition
By Khair El-Din Haseeb, Samir Makdisi
January 25, 2018
Pre-eminent among the requisites for economic integration is monetary integration. It is the premise of the chapters in this book that if the Arab world is to achieve a closer degree of cooperation in economic and political spheres, the issue of monetary integration must be given much more ...
Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s: Opportunity and Responsibility
1st Edition
By Yusuf A. Sayigh
January 25, 2018
Until 1973 few people, either in the advanced, industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World, thought seriously on the issues and complexities involved in the production and marketing of the oil on which they relied. It was only with the sudden steep increases in oil prices...
Economic and Political Change in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Elias Tuma
January 25, 2018
In the early 1960s the Middle East suffered from political instability, inefficiency of government, widespread poverty and inequality, low productivity, and a mounting population pressure on the region’s resources. With the exception of some of the oil-exporting countries, the entire region still ...
Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse
1st Edition
By William Roff
January 25, 2018
To be a Muslim is to be a part of a culture with distinct beliefs, ideas, institutional forms and prescriptive roles. Yet there is a complex inter-relationship between a system of knowledge and belief, such as Islam, and the immediate political, economic and social context of its adherents. This ...
Libya: Agriculture and Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By J.A. Allan, K.S. McLachlan, Edith Penrose
January 25, 2018
Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began. This new wealth has affected all sectors of the economy and especially the agricultural sector; there have been considerable movements of population, changes in the use of land, and, possibly most important, there has been a ...
Libya Since Independence: Economic and Political Development
1st Edition
Edited
By J.A. Allan
January 25, 2018
Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change. Many of these developments, though dramatic, have not been comprehensively documented until now. One of the problems that Libya has had to face has been the absorption of burgeoning oil revenues, and here the ...
Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World
1st Edition
By R. Paul Shaw
January 25, 2018
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 identifies population and manpower problems that are likely to become more serious and more difficult to solve if they are neglected at this ...
North Africa: Contemporary Politics and Economic Development
1st Edition
By Allan MacKay Findlay, Richard Lawless
January 25, 2018
This book covers the contemporary politics and economic development of the four countries of North Africa – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. The first part is devoted to contemporary politics and political systems in each of these countries. It traces their political development since ...
Oil, Industrialization and Development in the Arab Gulf States
1st Edition
By Atif Kubursi
January 25, 2018
Were oil supplies everlasting and the demand for oil strong and continuous, economic diversification in the Gulf would be pointless. However oil reserves are finite and non-renewable and the world demand for oil from the Gulf region is simply not stable. Collectively the countries of the Gulf face ...