 Labour Imports/ Exports for Economic Development: The Middle East ExperienceZafer H. Ecevit
Chapter 23 in Human Resources, Employment and Development, 1983, pp 331-345 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The value of petroleum exports from OPEC’s twelve major petroleum-exporting members rose from $35 billion in 1973 to $112 billion in 1974 and reached $137 billion in 1977.2 In the petroleum-exporting countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the sharp increase in revenues substantially eased, and in some cases practically eliminated, the financial constraints to economic growth. Yet this development brought with it difficult issues and choices for policy-makers. Apart from the socio-political choices concerning the appropriate role of the public and private sectors, standards of income distribution, and rates of petroleum depletion, they had the difficult task of mobilising other factors of production. Absorption of existing revenues, and thus economic growth, was impeded by a lack of infrastructure and, more importantly, by an acute shortage of manpower at all skill levels. Keywords: Saudi Arabia; Middle East; Unskilled Labour; Occupational Distribution; Immigrant Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-22741-9_23 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_23 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in International Economic Association Series from Palgrave Macmillan |
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