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For a recent analysis of the future trends of the Arab economy in general and of employment in particular, see the documents presented by the Arab experts at the symposium entitled »The Arab World in the Year 2000,« organized by the Arab States Regional Bureau of the United Nations Development Program and held at Tangier 3-8 May 1980. In his book, The Arab Economy Today (London: Zed Press, 1982), Samir Amin says that »the Arab economy is more externally oriented — and hence more dependent — than the economies of the rest of the Third World« (p. 51).