ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the economic evolution during the regional oil boom and the emergence of Israel contributed to the pattern of manufacturing, which reveals the importance of manufacturing in the older areas of Turkey, Iran, and Egypt as well as more recently in Syria, Israel, and Iraq, and on a smaller scale in Cyprus and Lebanon. The region's patterns of manufacturing are determined by the classic geographical factors of raw materials, labor supply, transportation, market, and power, along with such intangibles as financial incentives, momentum, tradition, and technology. Concentrations of the greatest number of factors attract the largest ensembles of manufacturing. Quantification of the industrialization of states in the region is difficult because of a shortage of meaningful and comparable statistics. Since the overwhelming emphasis is on petroleum exploitation, the Gulf's recently evolved economic patterns and activities differ from those of neighboring non-oil areas.
