Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen

B. R. Pridham

1: Evaluation of Socio-economic Development in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, V. V. Naumkin; 2: Problems of Development Planning in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Ahmed Ali Abdulsadiq; 3: Agricultural Development in the Yemeni Tihama: the Past Ten Years, Martha Mundy; 4: Land Usage and its Implications for Yemeni Agriculture, Horst Kopp; 5: Irrigation and Land Use in the Ma'rib Region, Ueli Brunner; 6: Economic Aspects of the Qat Industry in North-West Yemen, Shelagh Weir; 7: Fiscal and Budgetary Policies in the Yemen Arab Republic, Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf; 8: The Development of the Banking Sector in the Yemen Arab Republic, Taher A. Rajab; 9: Consumption in the Yemen Arab Republic, Nigel Harvey; 10: Social and Economic Change in the Rural Distribution System: Weekly Markets in the Yemen Arab Republic, Gunther Schweizer; 11: The Impact of Emigration on Social Structure in the Yemen Arab Republic, Ahmed al-Kasir; 12: Emigrant Remittances and Local Development: Co-operatives in the Yemen and Arab Republic, Jon C. Swanson; 13: Labour Emigration and Internal Migration in the Yemen Arab Republic - the Urban Building Sector, Gunter Meyer; 14: Changing Attitudes Towards Health: Some Observations from the Hujariya, Cynthia Myntti; 15: Aspects of Education in the Yemen Arab Republic, Peter Clark; 16: The Development of Primary Education and its Problems in the Yemen Arab Republic, Horia Mohammed al-Iryani; 17: Low Enrolment of Students at the Faculty of Education and its Effects on the Second Five-Year Plan, Mohamed A. Alkhader; 18: Cultural Development in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Abdullah Ahmed Muheirez; 19: The Conservation on the Urban Architectural Heritage of Yemen, Ronald Lewcock; 20: The Economic Importance of Tourism in Yemen, Abdulhadi H. al-Hamdani; 21: Tourism: a Blessing or a Curse? Michael Adams; Glossary of Arabic Words; List of Contributors; Index