VOL.XXXVI

NO.49

6-SEPTEMBER-1993

Articles & Documents

The Saudi Economy: A Saudi Response To The New York Times

by Dr. Farouk Akhdar

In the following article a prominent Saudieconomist,Dr.

FaroukAkhdar,takes issue with the gloomy picture of the Saudi Arabian economy presented in recent widely publicized

articlesintheNewYorkTimesandotherwestern newspapers.Dr.AkhdarisPresident of theRiyadh-based

Economic Bureau,an economicconsulting firm which heset up in 1988.Previously,from 1975 to 1988, Dr....