How many STEM graduates from local universities do Saudi Arabia and UAE produce?
The competitive and sustainable growth of the Islamic economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) hinges to a large extent on the production, transmission and transfer of knowledge. Over the past decade the two largest economies in the GCC—Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—have announced ambitious policy reforms to transform their natural resource-dependent economies to knowledge-based economies and bring more locals into their workforce to balance decades of foreigner-citizen labor distortion.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) skills and expertise are fundamental to the development and improvement of a knowledge-based economy. How many STEM and STEM-related graduates from local universities do Saudi Arabia and UAE produce?
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