In Focus # When the Wells Run Dry - Visions for the Gulf # Part 2: Tapping into Learning Power # 22.05.2010

The Gulf states have another thirty years before most of their oil resources run dry. As a future source of wealth, tourism alone won’t suffice. Now the sheikhs are going full speed ahead to train their young, and the raw material of tomorrow is not crude oil or gas, but knowledge. In Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Oman future generations will have to shape their own destiny before the era of oil wealth draws to a close.