R. Paul Shaw has travelled broadly within the Arab global, acquiring information and accumulating impressions first-hand from nationwide and native planners. during this ebook, he identifies inhabitants and manpower difficulties which are prone to develop into extra critical and more challenging to unravel in the event that they are ignored at this early degree of Arab improvement. He specializes in 5 vast parts that are at once or in a roundabout way on the topic of mobilizing human assets, and his e-book can be of particular curiosity to all people who find themselves inquisitive about such concerns as inhabitants, migration, employment, inequality, the emancipation of ladies, building and agriculture. Dr Shaw proposes coverage directives that are delicate to the issues as they're obvious by means of the Arab governments themselves, and units out sensible guidance which are utilized by Arab planners and policy-makers. a big function of the ebook with appreciate to present literature on Arab improvement is that it strikes clear of a preoccupation with growth-related investments to a focus on development-related inhabitants, manpower and employment concerns. by means of bringing jointly such entire empirical and bibliographic details, it's going to even be helpful as a reference resource for a few twenty Arab countries.

First released in 1983.