The economies of these states are rich in capital but generally short of manual labour, which they have had to import for the most part from neighbouring countries. The fact that smaller-scale industry is particularly labour-intensive raises interesting issues of national costs and benefits...

Few African countries have made significant progress in the direction of privatisation. A major reason for this has been the lack of a realistic assessment of the requirements and capabilities needed to carry out successful privatisation: terms of financial support, policy initiatives,...

This paper assesses industrialisation efforts of Qatar to date and examines the following questions: has the country made significant progress towards industrial diversification and in what sense; how has the industrial performance of Qatar compared with that of neighbouring Arab economies in the...