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In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf. The volume presents insightful analyses and identifies key lessons learned through case studies covering four...
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This volume goes beyond a conventional analysis of Asia’s energy relationships and explores the premise that energy relations in Asia in the 21st century should reinforce mutual interdependence. Conventional analyses of international energy relations stress the asymmetric nature of the risks...
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This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain). The authors provide a...
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This book provides an economic analysis of the earliest Islamic society, focusing on the policies of the Messenger of Islam (Sawa) and his successors during the first four formative decades of Islam. Two institutions of great importance - the market and the public treasury (Baitul Mal) - and...
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Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Overview -- Mohamed A. Ramady -- Part 1 Regional Structural Reforms and Engines of Change -- 1 Working for a Sustainable GCC Future: Reflections on Policies and Practices, Nabil Sultan -- 2 Deepening the GCC Debt Market: The Saudi Arabia...
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Part I -- Foundation and Key concepts -- GCC Country Risk and the " Arab Spring " -- Country Risk assessments -- Part II : Indicators of Country Risk analysis -- Indicators of Financial Risk -- Determinants of Country economic risk -- Country political risk contents -- Part III : GCC Country...
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This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. Heavy dependence on oil, the 'Dutch Disease', and the high incidence of unskilled foreign workers have caused serious structural imbalances in the labour market in the...
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This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy
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Service Scheduling -- 5 Customer Adoption of AI in Service Encounters -- 6 Optimal Structure of Experiential Services: Review … Exploring the Journey to Services -- 18 Digital Workers in Nested, Networked Holistic Service Systems: A New Workplace Culture … Mobility Services -- 26 Population Health as a Network of Services: Integration of Health, Education, and Social Services -- 27 …
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sector should not only incorporate single-end services, therapies or diagnosis related groups. Moreover, the authors focus on …
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