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Are they giving away most of it to the citizens? (I have heard that some countries, maybe Saudi, have things like free petrol for everyone.) And is it in one bi
by Dewie 13y ago
Are they giving away most of it to the citizens? (I have heard that some countries, maybe Saudi, have things like free petrol for everyone.) And is it in one big sum, like on the order of something like 200,000USD? I can't see how the latter would work out. I can't imagine how giving most of it to the citizens would work out in the first place, but clearly I'm missing something.
- angersock 13y agoHint: who is considered a citizen?
- patmcguire 13y agoVery, very true. Brunei and Kuwait are terrible offenders - huge sections of the population (more than half in Brunei) aren't citizens and can't be, no matter how many generations they've been there. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States also have a ton of foreign workers who aren't citizens. Saudi Arabia is second to the US in remittances sent out... http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2013/10/27/Kingdom-world-s-second-top-remittance-sending-country.html http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2013/10/27/... Think about big that has to be - it's more than any of the most developed EU states to the rest of the EU (how many foreign workers are in the UK? Germany? A lot. And they probably pay much better). It's more than comes out of Russia, when half the GDP of some of the ex-Soviet states is Russian remittances. So while maybe you're entitled to certain things as a citizen, a huge amount of what makes that possible is done by people who aren't.
- Dewie 13y agoDoesn't sound that applicable to Norway in that case.