That country’s biggest challenge IMO is in getting their own people to actually WORK and PRODUCE something.
My daughter had to tutor some Saudi students in college.
She said they were all emotionally arrested at age 13.
Absolutely useless. You can’t run a country with people
like that.
The Arabs always said if the oil ran out or the market evaporated they could always go back to herding and milking goats. The fact is most don’t know how to herd, milk, butcher or grow anything.
According to Lynn and Venhanen's book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, there's a pretty strong correlation between per capita GDP in most nations and the average IQ in the population. There are outliers, however. On one side, you have Communist or former Communist countries where the nations are much poorer than IQ would predict for institutional reason. The other outlier is Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations - which are swimming in oil and so are filthy rich in spite of a mean IQ in the 80's. Even without radical Islam to muddle their minds, I doubt any of these countries would ever amount to much. The best you can hope for is mediocrity without the religious fanaticism and violence.