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Given the appalling social and economic conditions that existed in Oman in 1970, the progress that has been accomplished in a relatively short period of time is by any measure, both quantitatively and qualitatively, extraordinary. This was recognized in 2010 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which reported that between 1970 and 2010 Oman had the fastest progress of any country in the Human Development Index (HDI), with a quadrupling of gross enrollment and literacy rates and a twenty-seven-year increase in life expectancy.1
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Funsch, L.P. (2015). Constructing a Modern Economy. In: Oman Reborn. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502018_6
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