Yazar : Ragaei el Mallakh

Saudi Arabia Profile of an Energy Economy and Investment.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Dedication; Foreword; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Conversion Equivalents; 1. An Overview; 2. The Economics of Oil; 3. Agriculture and Development of Water Resources; 4. Industrialization: Bright Hopes and Obstacles; 5. Planning for Economic Development: the First Experience; 6. Planning for Economic Development: the Second Experience; 7. Planning for Economic Development: the Third Experience; 8. Public Finance and Budgetary Policy. 9. Money and Banking10. International Trade; 11. Saudi Arabian Foreign Aid; 12. Business Trends and Potential; Appendix; Select Bibliography; Index. Saudi Arabia is one of the most controversial and least known of the Arab nations. A land of massive contrasts - between its densely populated cities and its vast expanses of desert; between the recent poverty of its villages and the massive wealth created by oil, which is drawing a labour force from most of the neighbouring countries; between the aggressive technocratic and industrial thrust forward and the strongly traditionalist Islamic basis of the ruling ideologies - it has progressed to world prominence in a matter of years after centuries of little or no change. The change is not so muc.