Industrialization in the United Arab Emirates

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    • Ghanem, Shihab M. A.

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Industrialization in the United Arab Emirates

Shihab M.A. Ghanem

Avebury, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129)

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Description

A study of the industrial development in the United Arab Emirates since the discovery of oil. The author shows that industrialization is one of the key policies for the UAE to follow in order to diversify an economy heavily reliant on oil, and identifies and investigates the severity of the problems facing industrialization. The book also investigates the problem of shortage of indigenous industrial skilled manpower.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 UAE - background and economy: natural features
  • climate
  • political structure
  • the economy of the UAE. Part 2 Population and manpower in the UAE: the growth of population in the UAE
  • the UAE labour market. Part 3 UAE industrial sector: the development of industry in the UAE
  • Industrialization related to oil and gas
  • manufacturing outside the oil sector
  • a closer examination of some manufacturing industries in the UAE
  • industrial zones and the UAE. Part 4 UAE industrialization and its problems: strategic alternatives for development of the UAE
  • rationale for UAE industrialization
  • import substitution and export-orientated industrialization in the UAE
  • resources and constraints of UAE industrialization
  • problems of UAE industries - empirical assessment
  • strategy for UAE industrialization.

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