Emiratization is the prevalent topic currently in the UAE’s economic forums and even the everyday life of the Emiratis. The UAE symbolizes an example of how the rapid economic expansion is affecting the natives alongside the economic structure and evidently the fiscal policies. These changes are noticeably manifested in the UAE’s dramatic increase of expatriates inflowing to work in its lucrative market. Conversely, the rapid growth of the UAE’s expatriates ended up reducing the Emiratis to being a minority ethnic group in their own land – a Middle Eastern version of the Red Indians, as some might argue. Subsequently, this has resulted in a radical approach to solve this rising problem through a policy of localization to empower the Emiratis in the emerging combative market and especially the expatriates dominated private sector. This essay will reveal the origins of the current economic situation of the UAE and attempt to validate that Emiratization policy is becoming solely a quota system not an effective solution.
In 1968, Britain announced that it was withdrawing from the region. The seven emirates then had a total population of 180,000, scattered over 90, 6000 square kilometers of desert and mountain (Fairservice, 2001). Historically, the seven emirates were autonomous sheikhdoms until they were united as the UAE in 1971 (Gallant, 2008).
UAE is one of the dynamic trading hubs in the Persian Gulf. However, the economic development since the discovery of oil in 1966 has been remarkable. Before the oil boom, people in UAE survived through fishing, pearling and limited trading. The growth that this transformation brought has enabled the swift progress, which assisted a large non-oil economy. Industrialization and tourism are gr...
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This article is about the UAE’s policy of Emiratization and wither it is a mere quota system or the effective solution for the unemployment growing rate. I will present some the article arguments and I will discuss them further in the essay.
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This book represents an official guide for businessmen on how to do business in the UAE. I will use this book to present the official views on localization policy.
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This book address many important questions such as should the West be seeking to encourage national indigenous evolution rather than working to impose Western systems? I will represent this book view on the Emiratization policy and its impact on the economic growth of the UAE.
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“One Arab nation from Gulf to the Ocean,” gives meaning to the term “Pan-Arabism” in the Middle East. A notion where Arab nations transcend their state boundaries to form political mergers with other states and achieve an ‘Arab unity.’ The existence of Arab states had been tumultuous throughout the decline of the Muslim order, the end of the Ottoman Empire, the Palestinian defeat, Six Day War and Arab-Israeli war in 1973. This essay will critically examine Foud Ajami’s case for a raison d’état in the Middle East and his claim that there were six broad trends leading to the alteration of the balance of power away from Pan-Arabism and towards the state. It will be argued that Pan-Arabism was a romantic ideology that Arab states found convenient to support, all in advancement of their nationalistic state agendas. It was never a realistic endeavor that was physically undertaken by the Arab states and was thus never alive in a tangible sense. However, Pan-Arabism as an ideology had a place in the Middle East and was thus alive in an ideological sense.
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Richard J. Braxton is a Ph.D., Director, at Innovation Center –Index Shared Services. The aim of his article is to understand the problem of youth unemployment in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and how best the government can critically address this issue. He gave several options that can be clear solution to the problem. His emphasized that the GCC countries need to adopt effective training and development programs to provide the unemployed youth with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in order for them to compete for job vacancies.. The article also gave many facts elaborating more on the issue, so that his audience gets more interested and engaged in the topic. The articles outlines so many important steps to be considered by the government, and...
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Since UAE is a great layout to apply some of the stratification such as Bourdieu’s theory of Habitués and Weber’s the theory of Typology of classes, and Marx’s theory of class division based on economy, the productive system is significant and the deterministic to all other aspects in the society (Chan & Goldthorpe, 2007). I will use UAE citizens as a case study to see whether the economic powers are given and created to the UAE Citizen to expresses their economic powers through the economic opportunities (the instruments) or if the UAE citizens have a cultural influence into creating their economic identity segmentation as the way to distinguish themselves from the others.
His Highness Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founder of the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, stated, “The greatest use that can be made of wealth is to invest it in creating generations of educated and trained people.” From its conception, the United Arab Emirates was founded on the importance of education. Since it’s founding in 1971, the small country’s population has risen to over nine million people. This dramatic rise in population was a cause for the dramatic investment the countries government has put into its education system. In 1975, the rate of adult literacy was 54% among men and 31% among women, while today, literacy rates f...
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The discovery of oil in Middle East in the late nineteenth century added a critical dimension to the region as major outside state powers employed military force to protect their newly acquired interests in the Middle East. The United States efforts to secure the flow of oil have led to their ever-increasing involvement in the Middle East’s political affairs and ongoing power struggles. By the end of the twentieth century, safeguarding the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf had become one of the most important functions of the U.S. military. The close relationship between the United States and the Saudi royal family was formed in the final months of World War II, when U.S. leaders sought to ensure preferential access to Saudi’s petroleum. The U.S. link with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region has demonstrated to be greatly beneficial to both parties, yet it has also led to ever deepening U.S. involvement in regional politics.
After the crisis UAE’s economy suffered from 2008-2009 the economy has diversified itself and does not depend solely on oil anymore but also on other sectors such as tourism. The inflation rate of Dubai is 0.33% which is also significantly low (Dubai Statistics Centre,2016).The small medium enterprise does not want to take a risk where there are fluctuations in price level thereby effecting the buying power of people and also the demand and supply of the Al-Simpkin’s product. Furthermore,the government encourages foreign investment and besides the agent there are free zones such Jabel Ali which is the largest
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, a popular, down-to-earth and a huge respected highness who ruled Abu Dhabi for 38 years and the United Arab Emirates for 33 years, had a massive impact on the development of the Gulf State (Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, n.d.). Sheikh Zayed grew up from humble homes outside of Abu Dhabi in the desert as a son of the former chief of state, Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Al-Abed, Vine, & Hellyer, 2005, pp. 13-14). Born at the beginning of the 20th century when Abu Dhabi was a small, destitute village which handled they subsistence with angling and selling gems, Sheikh Zayed enjoyed a typical cultural education, and he developed a fondness for falcons (Zayed National Museum, n.d.).
But the causes are complicated and close examinations are needed to gauge the degrees of developments of the two economies. One year's performance does not tell the whole story. Singapore is often quoted as an exemplary city to have successfully embedded its development strategy within the global economic circuit thus becoming a major regional/global head-quarter, financial and export service as well as manufacturing centre. The main UAE cities i.e., Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, on the other hand, are among many urban regions in the developing countries that hope to emulate Singapore as an emerging global city. Indeed Dubai is the most aggressive "aspiring city" in the Middle East and North Africa region pursuing this goal within its 20 year strategic development plan. Although there have been a number of research examining the impact of globalization processes on urban and regional development in various geographical areas including Singapore, there is a distinct lack of studies on the Middle Eastern Region particularly the UAE cities. These are in spite of the increasing prominence and role of these cities in the regional/global economy as emerging regional gateway and headquarter centers. In view of this, the following study delves into the very path that each of the subject cities has employed. It is an attempt to evaluate both the past development and the present and future capacity of their milieu, to accomplish their respective 'development visions' and emerge as centers of the global supply chain. The report will demonstrate a brief comparison of economic indicators between the economies of the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of