Oman

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Oman is a country about the size of Kansas, with a population of about three million individuals. Along with Yemen, its neighbor to the southwest, Oman has been one of the most isolated of the countries in the Arabian Peninsula. Until 1970 the entire country had only 10 kilometers of paved roads, two schools, and two hospitals. This paper explores the dramatic change has occurred in subsequent years, owing primarily to two factors: the bloodless coup by the present Sultan, and the foreign investment made in oil exploration by a consortium of five global shareholders.

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"Because this economic revolution happened so quickly in Oman, and because its population was so illiterate and unskilled initially, the country had to import vast numbers of expiates to work many of the new jobs. Times have now changed in the Sultanate. The schools, colleges and universities have now educated the younger generations, and the Omani are now facing a problem in rising unemployment levels. The government has therefore started a system of Omanization: reducing the reliance on foreign workers, and slowly pressuring employers towards educated Omani workers."

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