Home Page: OCIN INITIATIVE
(Japanese Version)
(Arabic Version)
(Table of contents)
By
Areha Kazuya
E-mail:
areha_kazuya@jcom.home.ne.jp
Chapter 3: The grace of Allah – Oil boom
3-4(26) Searching for wealth – Migrants rushing into Gulf countries
Increase of the production volume meant the increase of state revenues. The coffers of each country became abruptly enriched. The rulers of the countries put the money in their wallet and poured it into their families, but oil money was too much abundant to consume by themselves. The money has been used for the modernization of their countries including infrastructure development, education and medical improvement. Before the discovery of oil, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were extremely poor. It was a pre-modern society where education and medical care were not existed at all. But both countries began to be modernized.
By money, it was not difficult to construct infrastructure such as buildings, roads, bridges, harbors and the like. They asked the European consultant to design the building, ordered the construction works to the companies in Turkey and Egypt, and brought the cheap labor from India and Pakistan. The same was for schools and hospitals. The necessary teaching materials or medical equipment also imported from foreign countries paying by oil dollars.