Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Trials of Resilience: How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf" (Gilgamesh, 2021)
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The Importation of Human Capital in the Gulf Region
There is growing recognition of the need for these countries to start producing more locally and start exporting that. Of course, given the small local ations, you can only really realize the value by by exporting. But but also when you look at oreginal goods exports, these have been very much dominated by things like petro chemical and metals,. o energy intensive manufacturing. Huge opportunities to diversify thereby creating more value and more employment. Opportunities, stretch out those value chains further, encourage more foreign capital to come in. And start moving these economies further and faster in in the direction of knowledge based economies.
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