Why is there no middle class in the Middle East?

Answer 1

Where in the world is it really not Haves VS Have nots! Some people get access to a few bones and think ah i am better than the wage-slave people think again!

Answer 2

The reason why there is no middle class in the Middle East is directly related to the following points:
1. There are no private big industries in the Middle East. Most of the industries are public or state owned and the salaries of employed personals in these sectors are usually low.
2. There are no private commercial bodies, or private banks in the Middle East; most of the banks are state owned banks.
3. No technology or research and development mechanisms in the Middle East
4. The governments create most of the jobs. These jobs offer a low to medium salaries. These salaries enable people to barely meet their needs
5. Most governments in the Middle East are dictatorship governments. Most of the ruling members have created their own companies, or have forced other firms’ owners to cooperate with them so these owners can have access to the market. This relationship enables owners of companies to move and get goods easily in and out of the country. However, the price of this relationship is high on the part of the owners or creators of the companies.
6. The most beneficiary are the ruling members who take the money and put it in foreign banks instead of investing it in the local market.
7. Some or most of the revenue that comes from oil has been directed to the pockets of the rulers, their family members and their friends. Only part of that money is invested in the various sectors (education, health, industry, military, infrastructures, …etc). These minimum investments are necessary for the governments just to show people that they care about their societies and are necessary to keep the country as close as possible to the desired technological developments.
8. Most of the rulers in the Middle East lack the education, the vision, the leadership, and the wisdom to govern. The background of these regimes is military. These regimes think of the country as a big military base so that everyone in that country is treated like a conscripted soldier. These regimes rule their countries via means of intelligence-mechanisms that always humiliate people in that area.
9. Most middle class people in the Middle East escape the harsh environment and do immigrate to other countries or invest and start their businesses outside their native countries.
10. As long as no freedom of expression or no freedom of choice to work, educate, invest, create new industries, travel, import, export, advertise, and communicate, the development of the Middle East will not be achieved.
11. Examples of countries in the Middle East that fall under the above criterion are Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and Sudan.

In summary, the ruling parties members are the one who make money illegally through bribes, theft of the country resources so these personals and their families are in the high class and the rest of the people are in the low class. As long as you have capital you can do a lot with it and this is privileged to those rulers and the ordinary well-educated people are denied this privilege. The corruption can be seen at every level, and the governments themselves have created this corruption so they can always have the upper hand. The ordinary people are offered jobs in state owned institutions that barely give them reasonable salaries just to survive that is why most of the people in the Middle East are just making day-today-livings.
Finally, as a conclusion we could postulate that improving the future of the Middle East can only be done by keeping and improving the conditions for the middle class. Also, at this point we could define the middle class in the Middle East to consist of well-educated, business-minded, and well-trained people, who have the ability to innovate and create opportunities. If freedom an democracy has to be created in the Middle East all these criminal regimes have to be changed and replaced by the honest educated class; specially those personals who has acquired their education in the west, mainly in England, USA, and France.

Answer 3

Because Sadam Husein was the ruler and government of the country ,,, He had complete control ,,,, He created the two classes of people ,,,,, The have's and have not's ,,,,, Our own corporate/political system today is subtilly trying to do the same thing here in our own country but slowly to try and cover their actions ,,,,

Answer 4

Im fact, they were there. In Iraq they existed till Bush came along. In other parts of Mid East they existed till Israel started military actions on them.

Answer 5

There is in Israel. Compare the similarities among countries that have a middle class & then compare similarities among countries that don't. I think that will lead you to your answer.

Answer 6

Until the people are free there will only be two classes
ruling Nazislamic Fascist and poor smucks who follow them

Answer 7

Ask Mexico.

Answer 8

the sheiks that rule the oil keep it in familyand to hell with the poor man--just like american companies keep it to themselves--do not worry about others they will be dead soon