Change and continuity at sixty. (MEED Special Report: Saudi Arabia)

MEED Middle East Economic Digest | November 13, 1992| | Copyright

SAUDI ARABIA'S diamond jubilee is an opportunity to take stock of the state founded by King Abdel-Aziz in 1932. Economically, it has been transformed beyond recognition. Sixty years ago Riyadh was a remote walled city of no more than 30,000 people, several days hard travel by camel from the nearest coast. Then, there was not a single paved road in the kingdom, and cars were a rarity. Today, the Saudi capital, home to more than 2 million people, is a sprawling modern metropolis, with high-rise housing, fast food outlets and eight-lane expressways complete with traffic jams.

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