The Arab World (Routledge Introductions to Development)

✍ Scribed by Allan M Findlay

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This introductory text is the first new study of economic development in the Arab World since the Gulf War of 1991. It evaluates the means by which states as different as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco and Jordan have sought to achieve economic advances in relation to the cultural contexts from which they emerged. The book also highlights the continuing distinctions between Arab and Western interpretations of what ``development'' means. Allan M. Findlay demonstrates that external involvement in the region has been responsible for many of the development dilemmas faced by Arabs today. He argues that Arab states must identify clear development objectives which satisfy both their rising economic aspirations and their strong attachment to Arab identity and Islamic values.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 11
List of figures......Page 12
List of tables......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Perspectives on Arab development: from West to East......Page 18
The colonial legacy......Page 40
Political constraints to economic development......Page 62
Arab oil and the use of oil revenues......Page 88
Labour migration......Page 119
Rural development......Page 143
Urban development......Page 177
Arab identity and development......Page 208
References, further reading and review questions......Page 213
Index......Page 220