Overview
- Elaborates on various problems hindering diversification in the Gulf
- Examines shared issues in strategic planning, policy making, and implementation
- Underscores the importance of using global best practices to overcome fundamental weaknesses in the GCC's economic structure
Part of the book series: The Political Economy of the Middle East (PEME)
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This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures. It elaborates on the problem of weak institutions, lack of coordination between policy makers and executors, limited investment in research and development, and a workforce that is too poorly skilled to compete in the private sector. In addition to analyzing issues in areas such as education, labor, business, and trade, the contributors underscore the importance of using global best practices to overcome fundamental weaknesses in the Gulf Cooperative Council's economic structure that limit opportunities for economic diversification.
This is the second volume in Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region.
This is the second volume in Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region.
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Keywords
- sustainable development in the Middle East
- east asian economic development
- infrastructure in the middle east
- foreign direct investment in the middle east
- sovereign wealth fund in the middle east
- knowledge industry in the middle east
- total quality management
- Economic Diversification in the GCC
- Natural Resources and Economic Diversification
- Oil Resources and Diversification in Oman
- UAE’s Economic Diversification Strategy
- Dubai’s Model of Economic Diversification
- Gulf’s Digitized Creative Sectors
- Saudi-German Joint Ventures
- GCC’s Diversification and Industrial Development
- GCC and the Korean experience
- Singapore as a Model for the GCC Countries
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ashraf Mishrif is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy in the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, UK.
Yousuf Hamad Al Balushi is an experienced and qualified economist with more than 18 years’ professional experience at the Central Bank of Oman and the Supreme Council for Development and Planning of Oman.
Yousuf Hamad Al Balushi is an experienced and qualified economist with more than 18 years’ professional experience at the Central Bank of Oman and the Supreme Council for Development and Planning of Oman.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Diversification in the Gulf Region, Volume II
Book Subtitle: Comparing Global Challenges
Editors: Ashraf Mishrif, Yousuf Al Balushi
Series Title: The Political Economy of the Middle East
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5786-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Gulf Research Centre Cambridge 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5785-4Published: 23 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5489-2Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5786-1Published: 09 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-8854
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8862
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Middle Eastern and North African Economics, Development Economics, Regional Development