With half the Saudi population under 25, job creation is vital if the kingdom – which has no national representative institutions – wants to avoid the social unrest that has fuelled Arab spring protests across the region.
Other resource-rich countries, such as Botswana, Chile, and Norway, provide good models for Afghanistan to emulate in order to avoid the social unrest, graft, corruption, and environmental degradation that can often accompany natural resource development.
The move follows similar action by many city officials around the country who are considering removal of Confederate statues and other memorials in an effort to avoid the kind of unrest that occurred in Charlottesville as alt-right and white nationalist groups across the country vow to stage more rallies.
During the miracle years, the voters continued to elect members of one political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, thereby avoiding the political unrest that hurt the economies of other nations during this time.
Despite Saturday's flare-ups, Cleveland has mostly avoided the violent unrest seen in Ferguson, Mo., where a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man last year, and Baltimore, where a black man died after being injured in a police van.
Thus to avoid the risk of public unrest in the event of a military strike, its aim for now would be to try and stabilise a volatile situation with a view to resurrecting its nuclear ambitions as soon as the coast is clear.
In developed Western economies, the historical development of the mixed economy is the evolutionary change of the free market concept as it adapted to avoid the risks of widespread social unrest and potential revolutionary socialist or Marxist change.
It was his advice to avoid the streets where past coups have resulted in unrest and worse.
