While oil wealth has enriched some Middle East Arab nations, others that lack oil resources have remained poor and are looking now to their oil-rich neighbors for development assistance. This collection of studies on the economic, social, and political relationships between the haves and the have-nots in the Middle East focuses on Egypt-the largest
This collection of studies on the economic, social, and political relationships between the haves and the have-nots in the Middle East focuses on Egypt-the largest state in the regionand on its prospects for change based on financial assistance from other Arab countries.
Preface -- Introduction: Egypt in the Shadow of the Gulf -- The New Arab Social Order -- Oil, Migration and the New Arab Social Order -- Migration and Social Mobility in Egypt -- The New Arab Economic Order -- The Arab Economy and Its Developing Strategy: A New Arab Economic Order -- Arab Capital and Trilateral Ventures in the Middle East: Is Three a Crowd? -- The Predicament of the Arab Gulf Oil States: Individual Gains and Collective Losses -- Expatriate Labor and Economic Growth: Saudi Demand for Egyptian Labor -- The Open Door Economic Policy in Egypt: Its Contribution to Investment and Its Equity Implications -- External Factors in the Reorientation of Egypt's Economic Policy -- The New Arab Political Order -- The New Arab Political Order: Implications for the 1980s -- Implementation Capability and Political Feasibility of the Open Door Policy in Egypt -- Oil, Arms, and Regional Diplomacy: Strategic Dimensions of the Saudi-Egyptian Relationship -- Egypt and the Arabs in the Future: Some Scenarios
El Sayed Yassin, Malcolm H. Kerr, Jeswald Salacuse, Ismail Serageldin
