1: Challenges of Economic Diversification in the GCC.- 2: Natural Resources and Economic Diversification: Evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries.- 3: Oil Resources and Diversification in a Small Open Economy: the Case of Oman.- 4: Policy Implications of the UAE's Economic Diversification Strategy: Prioritizing National Objectives.- 5: Dubai's Model of Economic Diversification.- 6: Diversification and Specialisation in the Gulf's Digitized Creative Sectors.- 7: Success factors of Saudi-German Joint Ventures: A meta-analytical approach.- 8: GCC's Diversification and Industrial Development: Looking beyond the Asian Model.- 9: Economic Diversification in the GCC and the Korean experience.- 10: Economic Diversification and Empowerment of Local Human Resources: Could Singapore be a Model for the GCC Countries?.

This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures. It elaborates on the problem of weak institutions, lack of coordination between policy makers and executors, limited investment in research and development, and a workforce that is too poorly skilled to compete in the private sector. In addition to analyzing issues in areas such as education, labor, business, and trade, the contributors underscore the importance of using global best practices to overcome fundamental weaknesses in the Gulf Cooperative Council's economic structure that limit opportunities for economic diversification.