Where are the jobs for the boys?

摘要

By Most measures, the emirate of Abu Dhabi, the richest of the seven statelets that make up the United Arab Emirates (uae), is wonderfully affluent. With only 2m people and a vast reservoir of underground oil, its income of $90,000 per person is second in the world only to nearby Qatar. Its indigenous citizens, amounting to less than a third of the overall population, are used to government largesse: as a generous provider of services and benefits, they have generally been happy to forgo political rights. Until now.