the sabierc economic report on saudi arabia 2000 produced by business information and research centre sponsored british bank arab chamber of commerce this is second substantially revised edition first published in 1997 details other publications are available from public affairs department po box 9084 riyadh 11413 tel 01 405 0677 ext 4310 fax 4809 e mail pr sabb com sa preface s reports kingdom it takes a different approach to most dealing with topics two perspectives firstly each section looks at longer term developments policies within secondly more conventionally examines short taking place but advantage being able do so against background perspective reasons for doing numerous particular as consequence