The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Economic Development in Saudi Arabia – Empirical Study

Hanaa Abdelaty Hasan Esmail

doi:10.5539/jsd.v12n2p70

Abstract

Ideas and beliefs play an important role in guiding human behavior. As culture has a clear impact on community development, intellectual change or cultural change will rebuild Saudi society.  For this purpose, our study dealt with a presentation of the various previous studies that clarified the role of cultures in the development of society and whether change and diversity have a clear role in development.  The study was based on a survey of a group of questions to members of the community where the questionnaire was distributed to the University community to take different views of gender. The study also focused on determining the role of cultural diversity and emerging from some old customs to achieve sustainable development which is represented in three main dimensions of economic development, social development and finally political development. Assumptions were analyzed using multiple regressions.

Highlights

IntroductionEconomic development was seen as a development of production and employment
In previous eras, economic development was seen as a development of production and employment
There is an evidence of the role of culture in economic development evidenced during the financial crisis between 2008 and 2011 when the revealed United States of America paid attention to the culture sector believing that there is an impact on job creation

Summary

Introduction

Economic development was seen as a development of production and employment. It is viewed with its relation to the industrial and agricultural status of the state even improving services in any country. The society must have the ability to extract the means that will drive it to economic development. Among these means there is cultural development, which has a very important role in promoting and making effective changes in society. Cultures have a critical role to play in the development and success of their programs

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