United Arab Emirates Government Polices to encourage Economic Diversification from the Oil Base ; The case of tourism sector

Chapter 5 Review of Related Literature

UAE Economic Diversification to Achieve Sustainable Growth

In to understand the developer 's tragedy , we must judge his vision of the world not only by what it sees - by the immense new horizons it opens up for mankind - but also by what it does not see : what human realities it refuses to look at , what potentialities it cannot bear to face (Berman , 1982 :68

5 .0 Post-development and Rentiers

In early 2006 , the Dubai state outbid a company linked to the Singaporean state to purchase

P O (Peninsula and the Orient , the venerable British-controlled shipping port company once seen as binding the sinews of the British Empire . The purchase of such a former key imperial company by a postcolonial state (that had risen in what was once a minor colonial outpost ) is symptomatic of deeper shifts in the global geography of accumulation of power , and the map of `development (Sidaway , 2007 :345 . Postdevelopment (or similar vocabulary such as post-development , and antidevelopment ) usually signify a critique of the epistemological categories , hierarchies and assumptions of development discourses . This is the critical sense of postdevelopment that Saunders (2002a :24 ) signals when she claims : `Postdevelopment is not a distinct spatial region constituted through self-conscious postdevelopmental mode of life . [it is] currently limited to a form of criticism or deconstructive practice that is just beginning to emerge

Sivaramakrishnan and Agarwal (2003 ) note how , while there is controversy about the genealogy of development 's post 1945 reformulation with Berman...