VOL. XXXVI

NO. 4

26-OCTOBER-1992

Role And Importance Of Energy In Arab Economies

by Robert Mabro

The following is the text of a paper delivered by Robert Mabro at a seminarheld in Cairo on 4-6 October 1992 by the UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab Stateson "Domestic Energy Policies and Management in the Arab Countries."Mr. Mabro is Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Introduction

The three main resources of the Arab region are: (a) humancapital, (b) agriculture and (c) vast hydrocarbon...