The Dilemma of Development in the Arabian Peninsula

Abdul Rahman Osama (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-64202-7 (ISBN)

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This book, first published in 1987 and by one of Saudi Arabia’s most distinguished academics, reviews the experience of the Arab oil producers in social, economic and political development in the key period of the Seventies and Eighties. It is broadly pessimistic about the prospects for future development and sceptical about past achievements. It argues that the ‘petro-bureaucracy’ in the Arabian Peninsula has failed to establish the basic principles of effective development because it has been mesmerised by the vast oil revenues it has attempted to administer. The book suggests that in many respects the oil revenues have obstructed serious development because they have made the Arabian economies totally dependent on one expendable resource and this has made them too vulnerable to external pressures and interests. Furthermore, the oil revenues have encouraged fantasy and wishful thinking which have skewed the development process and stimulated pseudo-development. The book makes clear that until the petro-bureaucracy adopts a realistic approach to development there can be no prospect of real development in the Arabian Peninsula.

Osama Abdul Rahman

1. Theoretical Framework for Development Administration 2. Development and Planning 3. Development of Bureaucracy 4. The Appropriate Model for Development Administration 5. Manpower Development 6. The Allocation of Financial Resources for Development

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Society of the Middle East
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-138-64202-9 / 1138642029
ISBN-13	978-1-138-64202-7 / 9781138642027
Zustand	Neuware