Bob Geldof Tells Arabs: Stop Breeding Or Nature Will Intervene

[HOLLYWOOD]

Well, tonight, thank God it's them, instead of you'	Bono	Jason Donovan/Kylie/Matt Goss	Bono
'And there won't be snow in Africa, this Christmas time'	Boy George/Paul Weller/Sting	Marti Pellow	Will Young & Jamelia
'The greatest gift they'll get this year is life'	Bono/George Michael/Boy George	Sonia	Will Young & Jamelia
'Ooooooooohhhhh'	Boy George	Lisa Stansfield	Will Young & Jamelia Or Ms Dynamite & Beverley Knight
'Where nothing ever grows'	Paul Young	Lisa Stansfield	Ms Dynamite & Beverley Knight
'No rain nor rivers flow'	Paul Weller	Lisa Stansfield	Ms Dynamite & Beverley Knight
'Do they know it's Christmas time at all?'	All	Sonia/Lisa Stansfield	All
'Here's to you'	Marilyn/Glenn Gregory/Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi	Kylie	Tom Chaplin
'Raise a glass for everyone'	Paul Young	Kylie	Justin Hawkins
'Spare a thought this yuletide for the deprived' 'If the table was turned would you survive?'

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[Victor Grey]

Was thinking on this a little; Arab countries generally don't have free markets, and they all of live under totalitarian states.

Many of those states, have oil as their main export.

Their people are kept suppressed generally, and if they want to better themselves, usually need to have the government's blessing. Be that by bribery or whatever means, the governments hinder them.

Those leadership in the government, kings and such often, their regimes get a huge share of the profits from the national oil industries. Perhaps with very small upperclass for management that gets something but mostly a one sided society.
The tyrants are allowed to spend that money as they please.

I would put forth the hypothesis, though I'm not sure, they whatever those in the tyrant rich-class or royal families spend, is quite often spent on imported goods.
There's only so much food and such that they need, so overall, the other people in their society don't even get that wealth generated by the oil industries, flowed down toward them secondarily. Instead, it goes in general over to industrialized countries. Their militaries are armed and fund the same, through goods manufactured overseas.

So while families of royal princes and leadership benefit in opulence, the citizens of those countries end up on the short end of things both ways.

The nations have little incentive to industrialize. The upper classes can purchase all they need overseas,
The rest of their population is suppressed by government from improving their lot where they will never succeed, and industrialization cannot spring up internally. Without of course the regime's blessings, usually because they are to it's benefit.

Because of this I would wonder if Arab countries will stay in a "malthusian trap" of poverty even if they did lower birth rates.