In an age of social transformation characterized by globalization, wireless communication, and ea... more In an age of social transformation characterized by globalization, wireless communication, and ease of travel and migration, more and more people around the world are marrying across national boundaries. This has occurred worldwide with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as no exception to this trend. As with the rest of the GCC, Qatar has witnessed remarkable social changes because of the discovery of petroleum resources that have affected the daily lives of people within Qatar in myriad ways. This includes marriage patterns, whereby cross-national marriages (marriages with non-Qataris) have shown a marked increase during the past few years, reaching 21% of total Qatari marriages in 2015 compared with only 16.5% in 1985.
The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protectio... more The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the social and economic well-being of its citizens. The six states of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, are well known for their welfare systems due to the high production of gas and oil. For example, Saudi Arabia alone holds around 16 percent of global oil reserves and Qatar ranked number one on the list of the top 10 richest nations because of its high GDP per capita of USD 127,523. For decades, this surplus was accompanied by generous economic and social welfare policies, including social protection policies, housing benefits, high per capita and free-taxation systems, what makes the GCC a destination for skilled labour as temporary migrants to accumulate wealth. However, nowadays the GCC is facing major structural challenges, that could be grouped into I. economic challenges in terms of volatility in world energy market, especially falling oil price, II. security and political challenges after the GCC blockade crisis starting from June 5th, 2017, III. demographic challenge in terms of imbalance between nationals and expats, which is not new, however it is recently addressed on the agenda of policy makers. These fundamental and contemporary challenges, especially the economic, security and political ones led to major revisions at policymaking levels and structural policy shifts which put the welfare concept under critical examination in the GCC. This paper provides situation analysis to the mentioned challenges and assesses its impact on social policy levels. Using systematic literature review methodology, this paper will map and assess the current changes in social welfare policies in a context of changing priorities of national expenditure.
In an age of social transformation characterized by globalization, wireless communication, and ea... more In an age of social transformation characterized by globalization, wireless communication, and ease of travel and migration, more and more people around the world are marrying across national boundaries. This has occurred worldwide with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as no exception to this trend. As with the rest of the GCC, Qatar has witnessed remarkable social changes because of the discovery of petroleum resources that have affected the daily lives of people within Qatar in myriad ways. This includes marriage patterns, whereby cross-national marriages (marriages with non-Qataris) have shown a marked increase during the past few years, reaching 21% of total Qatari marriages in 2015 compared with only 16.5% in 1985.
The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protectio... more The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the social and economic well-being of its citizens. The six states of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, are well known for their welfare systems due to the high production of gas and oil. For example, Saudi Arabia alone holds around 16 percent of global oil reserves and Qatar ranked number one on the list of the top 10 richest nations because of its high GDP per capita of USD 127,523. For decades, this surplus was accompanied by generous economic and social welfare policies, including social protection policies, housing benefits, high per capita and free-taxation systems, what makes the GCC a destination for skilled labour as temporary migrants to accumulate wealth. However, nowadays the GCC is facing major structural challenges, that could be grouped into I. economic challenges in terms of volatility in world energy market, especially falling oil price, II. security and political challenges after the GCC blockade crisis starting from June 5th, 2017, III. demographic challenge in terms of imbalance between nationals and expats, which is not new, however it is recently addressed on the agenda of policy makers. These fundamental and contemporary challenges, especially the economic, security and political ones led to major revisions at policymaking levels and structural policy shifts which put the welfare concept under critical examination in the GCC. This paper provides situation analysis to the mentioned challenges and assesses its impact on social policy levels. Using systematic literature review methodology, this paper will map and assess the current changes in social welfare policies in a context of changing priorities of national expenditure.
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terms of volatility in world energy market, especially falling oil price, II. security and political challenges after the GCC blockade crisis starting from June 5th, 2017, III. demographic challenge in terms of imbalance between nationals and expats, which is not new, however it is recently addressed on the agenda of policy makers.
These fundamental and contemporary challenges, especially the economic, security and political ones led to major revisions at policymaking levels and structural policy shifts which put the welfare concept under critical examination in the GCC. This paper provides situation analysis to the mentioned challenges and assesses its impact on social policy levels. Using systematic literature review methodology, this paper will map and assess the current changes in social welfare policies in
a context of changing priorities of national expenditure.
terms of volatility in world energy market, especially falling oil price, II. security and political challenges after the GCC blockade crisis starting from June 5th, 2017, III. demographic challenge in terms of imbalance between nationals and expats, which is not new, however it is recently addressed on the agenda of policy makers.
These fundamental and contemporary challenges, especially the economic, security and political ones led to major revisions at policymaking levels and structural policy shifts which put the welfare concept under critical examination in the GCC. This paper provides situation analysis to the mentioned challenges and assesses its impact on social policy levels. Using systematic literature review methodology, this paper will map and assess the current changes in social welfare policies in
a context of changing priorities of national expenditure.