Population Dilemmas in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780714647067 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 162 str.

Gad G. Gilbar

Opis

Demographic developments have had a crucial bearing on the economic, social and political situation in a number of Middle Eastern countries. Two societies in particular, the Palestinian and the Egyptian, have seen the weft and warp of their fabric significantly affected by natural increase and migration. The author shows how the recession that struck the Arab oil economies in the early 1980s, by slowing down the migratory movement, shut off the valve that had afforded the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza relief from economic pressures. He also analyzes how Jordan, in coping with the resulting demographic and economic pressures, adopted an antinatalist policy despite powerful political and social forces working against such a programme.

Spis treści

Journal of Palestine Studies - "With thirty-two tables and figures, this book is replete with useful statistics ..."



Progress in Human Geography - "The book"s strongest point is that it provides a complex picture of the factors that shape success and failure of population control policies".

O autorze

Gad G. Gilbar