The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Rich Arabs and Poor Arabs: An Introduction to Intra-Arab Issues

   • Kunibert Raffer, M. A. Mohamed Salih

   Pages 1-12

3. The Effects of Changes of Oil Prices on Peripheral Net Importers: A Crude Estimate with Special Reference to LDACs

   • Kunibert Raffer

   Pages 13-30

4. Some Aspects of the Gulf Co-operation Council’s Relationship with LDACs

   • Simon Koppers

   Pages 31-48

5. Maghreb Conflicts, Socioeconomic Crisis and Unity

   • Tuomo Melasuo

   Pages 49-63

6. The Effects of the Lomé Conventions on LDACs

   • Volker Wulf

   Pages 64-81

7. Agricultural Development in the Arab World: Achievements and Constraints

   • Hassan F. Jumah

   Pages 82-98

8. Food Security in the Sudan: The Need for a Regional Approach

   • Meine Pieter Van Dijk

   Pages 99-110

9. Survival Strategies and the State in Somalia

   • Gerald Braun

   Pages 111-127

10. Somalia: The Gulf Link and Adjustment

    • Vali Jamal

    Pages 128-152

11. ‘Structural Adjustment’ or Debt Relief: The Case of Arab LLDCs

    • Kunibert Raffer

    Pages 153-171

12. Migration from Rural Sudan to the Oil-Rich Arab Countries

    • Mohamed A. Mustafa Alnagarabi

    Pages 172-183

13. Impacts of Male Out-migration on Women: A Case Study of Kutum

    • Elke Grawert

    Pages 184-202

14. The Two Yemens: Ideology and Variations in Socioeconomic Development

    • M. A. Mohamed Salih

    Pages 203-215

15. Some Aspects of Islamic Banking in LDACs: Reflections on the Faisal Islamic Bank, Sudan

    • Badr Al-Din Ibrahim

    Pages 216-228

16. A Comparison of the Health Sector in Kuwait and Somalia

    • Alberto Klaas, Mara Galaty

    Pages 229-241

17. Back Matter

    Pages 243-251

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Comprising both extremely rich and very poor countries the Arab region is of unique variety. This book explores the relations between rich and poor Arab countries, presenting papers on Arab integration efforts, the impact of oil prices on the South and least developed Arab countries in particular, the co-operation of poor Arabs with the EEC, basic needs, agricultural policies, intra-Arab migration, differences in ideologies and health systems, Islamic banking, and the unsuitability of IMF policies for poor Arab countries.

• development
• Economic Development
• interdependence

• University of Vienna, Austria

  Kunibert Raffer

• Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden

  M. A. Mohamed Salih

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