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This volume discusses the evolution of the British-protected Gulf states during the 1960s and explains how these small Shaikhdoms moved towards independence. Based on extensive research using British documents from the Public Records Office and selected American documents from the National Archives, this book investigates the relationship between British officials and Arab Gulf Shaikhs. At the beginning of what was to be their final years as guardians of the Gulf, British officials pressed for political progress, co-operation among the Shaikhdoms and improvements in education and health care.

Persian Gulf States --- Great Britain --- Relations

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The concept of 'good governance' is of increasing importance, and is used by international organizations to ensure reasonable conformity to high standards in states which participate in the global trading regime and other international activities. This book examines the concept of good governance and how it is applied in the states of the Gulf Co-operation Council. These states are particularly important because of their strategic location and massive oil wealth. Moreover, as monarchies, in most cases without powerful democratic representative bodies, and as Islamic countries, with a differ

Persian Gulf States --- Politics and government. --- #SBIB:031.IO --- #SBIB:328H511 --- #SBIB:328H512 --- Instellingen en beleid: Islamitische, Arabisch sprekende landen --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden-Oosten / landen in het Midden-Oosten

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This paper presents an overview of the unprecedented economic and social transformation witnessed by the member countries of the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates-over the last three decades.

Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Gulf Cooperation Council. --- Persian Gulf States --- Saudi Arabia --- Economic conditions. --- Gulf Co-operation Council --- Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- States of Gulf Co-operation Council --- Golf-Rat --- GCC --- G.C.C. --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī al-ʻArabī --- GKR --- Kooperationsrat Arabischer Staaten am Golf --- Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- Duwal Majlis al-Khalīj --- Gŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Kŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun li-Duwal al-Khalīj al-ʻArabīyah --- Golfkooperationsrat --- AGCC --- A.G.C.C. --- Duwal Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Sovet sotrudnichestva arabskikh gosudarstv Persidskogo zaliva --- SSAGPZ --- Arab Gulf Cooperation Council --- مجلس التعاون الخليجي --- مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية --- Shūrā-yi Hamkārī-i Khalīj-i Fārs --- شوراى همکارى خليج فارس --- Persian Gulf Cooperation Council --- PGCC --- Conseil de coopération du Golfe --- Gulf Cooperative Council --- Consiglio di cooperazione del Golfo --- Ccg --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Civil service & public sector --- Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions --- Contracting Out --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Economic sectors --- Economic theory --- Employment --- Finance --- Finance, Public --- Finance: General --- Financial markets --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Income economics --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- International Economics --- Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure --- Labor force --- Labor market --- Labor markets --- Labor --- Labour --- Macroeconomics --- Privatization --- Public Enterprises --- Public Finance --- Public sector --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Stock exchanges --- Stock markets --- Unemployment --- Wages