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10 Business Intelligence Middle East, April 5, 2006, www.bi-me.com/
main.php?id=173&cg=9&t=1&PHPSESSID=68682d1e0649d68f013939
a5b195bbef.
11 “Working Knowledge,” Harvard Business School, hbswk.hbs.edu/
archive/4652.html.
12 Ibid.
13 Chicago Sun-Times, March 19, 2003.
14 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/ksa/about_impact.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
15 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/uae/about_story.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
16 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/kuwait/about_story.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
17 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/bahrain/about_story.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
18 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/oman/about_story.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
19 www.mcdonaldsarabia.com/english/qatar/about_story.asp (last
accessed May 14, 2007).
20 Restauranta and Institutions Magazine, December 1, 2006, www.rimag.
com/archives/2006/12/business-china.asp.
21 “Arab Advertising Comes of Age,” AMEInfo, www.ameinfo.com/
31160.html.
22 Middle East Media Guide (2006), Lexis Nexis, Zawya.com.
23 Bloomberg, www.bloomberg.com/apps/
news?pid=20601102&sid=auosJ3C.yfnA&refer=uk.

CHAPTER 7
1 CIA World Factbook, 2006.
2 Figure 7.2 is illustrative—clearly, GDP per capita has been more
volatile than the chart suggests. The point is to contrast more classic
development models with the experience of the GCC.
3 Onn Winckler. “The Demographic Dilemma of the Arab World: The
Employment Aspect,” Journal of Contemporary History 37, no. 4
(October 2002): 617–36. Page 623 for this citation.
4 Saudi Aramco corporate Web site, May 2007, www.saudiarmco.com.
5 One exception to this phenomenon is for owners of freehold
properties in UAE “free zones” such as the Palm Islands. Freehold