{"product_id":"saudi-arabia-rush-to-development","title":"Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development","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\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45541616255214,"sku":"9781138820319","price":55.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138820319.jpg?v=1720112864","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/saudi-arabia-rush-to-development","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}