The Wages of Oil : Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE /
The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait,...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Table des matières:
- Labor markets and class politics
- Participation
- Explaining Kuwaiti exceptionalism
- The consequences of absolutism
- The consequences of participation
- What resource curse?
- Dilemmas of development and democracy in the Gulf.