The oil-rich middle east countries are fast developing its social infrastructure, drawing upon non-national imported human resources. This policy has led to certain unintended outcomes and vitiated normal human resources development: cultural dissonance, limited transfer of expertise, passive...

Health manpower planning is a key component of health sector planning. It is crucially important for countries with scarce indigenous human resources, such as the oil-rich developing countries in the middle east. Most of these countries have adopted a policy of indigenisation. Health manpower...