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In terms of both pace and depth, the economic and social changes that have been brought by the discovery and exportation of oil in the Gulf Arab states are unparalleled in the modern history of any other region in the world. In a few decades, the economic and demographic structures of these countries have changed completely. From pockets of scattered communities in the desert and small coastal towns relying for their livelihood on animal husbandry, fishing, pearling and sea trade, oil has transformed the Gulf countries into ‘modern’ ones — with modern cities, infrastructure and social services. The Gulf has been changed in less than three decades from a population-push to a principal population-pull region.
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Abdelkarim, A. (1999). Oil, Population Change and Social Development in the Gulf: Some Major Trends and Indicators. In: Abdelkarim, A. (eds) Change and Development in the Gulf. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376007_2
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