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Horrifyingly violent crime, particularly in the capital, is not encouraging newcomers and there are concerns over the government's foolishly populist recent promise to reduce the 25,000-strong expatriate workforce by two thirds, to "create jobs" for locals.
This was the expat trade-off in the Great Deal done between the al-Maktoum family, rulers of Dubai since 1833, and the expatriate workforce that keeps the place going.
Dependence on oil, a large expatriate workforce, and growing inflation pressures are significant long-term challenges.
The prospect of peace could open up the resources-rich south to foreign investment, which is still overshadowed by the billions of dollars sent home each year from the huge expatriate workforce.
This case outlines how Oman is continuing to turn around its excessive dependence on expatriate workforce through strategic workforce development planning.
As a result of expatriate workforce recruitment for industrial projects, males outnumber females 3 1 in the overall UAE population (nationals and non-nationals); however, there are approximately equal numbers of male and female UAE nationals (3).
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Oman has historically been dependent upon an expatriate dental workforce with only 24% of the dentist workforce Omani in 2010 (n = 160).
Overall unemployment may look low because of the high proportion of expatriates in the workforce, but the rate among local youths is rising alarmingly.
Expatriates, who form the workforce, constitute two-thirds of the Kuwait population; migrants are at greater risk of developing diabetes (3).
Thus, traditionally, Oman relied on expatriate dentists to form its dental workforce, together with a minority of overseas-qualified Omanis.
Moreover, countries are likely to be very alert to the cost of such initiatives and to compare them with other strategies to strengthen their own medical workforce, or to hire expatriate doctors in government service themselves.
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