{"product_id":"9781138820319","title":"Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development : Profile of an Energy Economy and Investment (Routledge Library Editions: The Economy of the Middle East)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaudi Arabia is one of the most controversial and least known of the Arab nations. A land of massive contrasts – between its densely populated cities and its vast expanses of desert; between the recent poverty of its villages and the massive wealth created by oil, which is drawing a labour force from most of the neighbouring countries; between the aggressive technocratic and industrial thrust forward and the strongly traditionalist Islamic basis of the ruling ideologies – it has progressed to world prominence in a matter of years after centuries of little or no change. The change is not so much a surge, or even a thrust, as a rush into the industrialized and wealthy world. This book analyzes the problems and achievements of Saudi development and provides the first detailed critique of the Third Development Plan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49152344719595,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":95.2,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138820319-1.jpg?v=1785976142","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138820319","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}