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The Prospects for Scientific and Technological Development in Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Joseph S. Szyliowicz
Joseph S. Szyliowicz
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University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
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Today we are witnessing a very rare phenomenon in world history: a state suddenly deluged with an apparently inexhaustible amount of wealth as occurred in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal when the riches of the New World flowed to the Iberian peninsula. Now the ‘black gold’ under the sands of the Arabian desert has provided one of the most underpopulated and under developed regions of the world with an equivalent bonanza. The new wealth of Spain helped to ruin that country. What will be the fate of Saudi Arabia and its small neighbors?

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 355 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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