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Because the improvement of the country's infrastructure within the Seventies, nationwide improvement plans have given precedence to lowering dependency on oil exports and inspiring income-generating tasks in non-oil sectors (diversification), selling privatesector funding, and effecting a much broader geographical distribution of investments to right nearby imbalances. this sort of wider distribution is meant to slim the space within the way of life in several areas, enhance current components of inhabitants, and discourage migration to densely populated city facilities, corresponding to Muscat (also noticeable as Masqat), the capital. both very important are the nationwide pursuits to strengthen neighborhood human assets, to extend indigenous participation within the inner most quarter, and to enhance govt administration and association.
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The Al Maktum would not have liked the Al Nuhayyan to dominate a confederation of gulf leaders while they were isolated in Dubayy. Powers beyond the gulf coast also had an interest in the state to be formed. The Saudis no longer sought to control the gulf coast, but they remained concerned about stability on the eastern border.
However, both the quality and the amount of goods that passed through Dilmun declined, and many scholars attribute this to a corresponding decline in the Mesopotamian markets. Concurrently, an alternate trade route arose that linked India to the Mediterranean Sea via the Arabian Sea, then through the Gulf of Aden, thence into the Red Sea where the pharaohs had built a shallow canal that linked the Red Sea to the Nile. This new route gave access not only to Mediterranean ports but also, through the Mediterranean ports, to the West as well.
Accordingly, in the nineteenth century Wahhabi tribes, under the leadership of the Al Saud, moved at various times against Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. In Oman, the Wahhabi faith created internal dissension as well as an external menace because it proved popular with some of the Ibadi tribes in the Omani interior. Wahhabi thought has had a special impact on the history of Qatar. Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab's ideas proved popular among many of the peninsula tribes, including the Al Thani clan, before the Al Khalifa attempted to take over the area from Bahrain at the beginning of the nineteenth century.