1. Long-term outlook.
- Subjects
UNITED Arab Emirates politics & government, 1971- ,ECONOMIC forecasting ,PRACTICAL politics ,POPULATION ,FOREIGN workers ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article reports on the political and economic outlook for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through 2015. It forecasts that the region's dependence on foreign labor will decline significantly in the long term. It expects that the population will rise over the forecast period, while the demographic balance of the overall population will remain unchanged. It argues that the region will continue to reform its government institutions and society will remain overwhelmingly tribal.
- Published
- 2010