ABSTRACT
Saudi Arabia is in many ways a paradox, its austere Wahhabist Islam contrasting sharply with the highly advanced corporate efficiency of its gigantic state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco. A country of enormous wealth, it none the less has a youth unemployment rate unofficially approaching 30%. 1 While its government has spent billions to upgrade the educational system and improve the country’s human capital, private employers still complain that the lack of a qualified Saudi workforce keeps them almost entirely dependent on foreign labour.
