ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides many of the ills ascribed to resource development— corruption, negative impacts on other sectors of the economy and unwise dependency on ongoing resource income. He believed that development of the country should come slowly and in line with Omani customs and values. A slow development from the status quo was untenable and in 1970 Sultan Said bin Taimur was replaced in a bloodless coup by his son Qaboos bin said. The steady development of Oman then began and the results of the subsequent 40 years of wise and enlightened leadership by Sultan Qaboos bin Said are remarkable. In Malaysia politics has always been more pluralistic, with different parties, predominantly ethnically based, coming together into an alliance, but with a single national language. The first of many military coups in Nigeria took place in 1966, partly as a result of one of Nigeria’s many disputed elections.
