Abstract EN:

Oil exporting countries have met with difficulties in directing their external resources toward the promotion of domestic economic development; these difficulties indicate that economic development does not automatically follow the availability of financial resources. The governments of these oil exporting countries, which came to power after political independence, now play a major role in the collection and distribution of external resources, and willingly or not - take part in a new - economic, social, and cultural form of dependence. The mechanisms behind this "perversion" are economic, political, ideological and cultural. A country-by-country analysis of these mechanisms is necessary, taking into account each country's specific characteristics. If one considers the attempts to prepare the post-oil economy to have failed, this failure reveals the major contradictions which exist in developing countries, the main one being the discrepancy between state and nation. This discrepancy, which is implicit in all third world countries, is made more blatant in oil-exporting countries by the effects induced by the massive inflow of oil income.