Oil Export Economies: New Comparative Perspectives on the Arab Gulf States

Life after Oil: Economic Alternatives for the Arab Gulf States

There have been three economic transformations of the Arab Gulf. Yet the obstacles today remain eerily similar to those of forty years ago. The first transformation occurred after the discovery of oil, variously between the 1930s and the 1960s. For the first time, what had been one of the world’s poorest regions had the means to build elements of basic infrastructure and to improve standards of...

HIV Responses in Arab States on the Southern Persian Gulf Border: The First Review

CONTEXT There is no review of HIV responses in Arab states on the southern Persian Gulf border. This narrative review aimed to describe and synthesize HIV responses in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A review of scientific databases and grey literature was conducted based on an international guide. Overall, 16 original studies and reports were f...

Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies

Diabetic nephropathy in the Arab Gulf countries.

While the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, one third of the diabetic patients will eventually develop chronic kidney disease. The aim of this review is to present the available data on diabetic nephropathy and its complications in the Arab Gulf countries. This will eventually help to raise the awareness of both government and healthcare systems towards the substantial va...

The Gulf oil spill.

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh (B.D.G.); and the Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (H.J.O.); and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (M.Y.L.) — both in New Orleans. Address repr...