Author Question: All of the following are true about the economies of the Middle East except a. the socialist ... (Read 58 times)

skymedlock · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

All of the following are true about the economies of the Middle East except

a. the socialist economies in the region have been more prosperous than capitalist ones.
b. no nation in the region has attempted to create a Leninist socioeconomic system.
c. a lack of adequate water resources and rapid population growth have created serious economic problems in the region.
d. emigration has served as a type of wealth re-distributor in the region.
e. that uneven oil income has caused vast differences in wealth distribution in the region.

Question 2

During the first decades of the twentieth century, women in the Middle East

a. were aided by the modernist movement's efforts to change female statuses and roles by interpreting Islamic views in a manner closer to those prevailing in the West.
b. experienced great changes in their lives before 1970, in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, which had regimes actively working to modernize their societies.
c. have made perhaps the greatest advances in Saudi Arabia, where women now have unlimited access to university education and may adopt Western dress.
d. have never had any political rights in Iran.
e. have had few if any political rights in Israel.