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This Atlas of the Gulf States offers a survey of the contemporary history and recent economic and urban development of the Gulf region. It contains more than 150 maps and graphs concerning the coastal regions of all countries around the Gulf: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Iran.

Research on agricultural development models shows that local applications of global models are adapted both to the globalisation of agricultural markets and to climate change. The circulation of such models is also linked to local political and historical contexts. However, few studies have focused on abrupt changes in economic policies, such as those following the Arab Spring. We propose to study the evolution of olive-growing development policies in post-revolutionary Tunisia. In order to mitigate both market- and climate-induced vulnerabilities and to make the sector more competitive with major olive producers, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) guidelines recommend intensification of Tunisian olive farming through irrigation. Our research makes two main claims: (1) the change in the production model towards irrigation aims to respond to globalisation, climate change and national policies. (2) Some exporters are involved at several levels of the value chain. This research conducted by geographers and economists analyses the mutations of the olive sector towards irrigation, using a double theoretical framework on the circulation of agricultural development models, with a political-ecology approach. This paper contributes to a growing body of research on the relationship between commodity production networks and water studies.

Existing studies have examined only the unidirectional impact of cultural diversity on the economic performance of countries, regions, and cities, not the other ways. They have assumed the diversity as given, while it may also grow, due to in-migration of workers and entrepreneurs, with economic growth and may be dependent on it. This paper models diversity and economic growth in a bi-directional causal frame and demonstrates that economic growth has a substantial impact on religious, language, and overall cultural diversities in the major states of India. However, the Granger causality between economic growth to language diversity and overall cultural diversity is found to be stronger and more widespread across the states than the causality from economic growth to religious diversity. The findings of this paper may have significant theoretical and empirical implications, as mainly the unidirectional way the impact of cultural diversity on economic growth has been advocated and the empirical studies have been modelled to date.

Le recensement de la population en Inde est une immense opération réalisée tous les dix ans depuis 1881. Aujourd'hui, c'est le comptage d'un milliard d'habitants, à propos desquels il est ainsi possible de disposer d'informations détaillées, constituées et publiées jusqu'au niveau le plus fin, celui des villages, unités administratives un peu équivalentes aux communes françaises. Certes, on peut faire quelques critiques car des informations utiles pour les chercheurs sont absentes, comme la référence aux castes, par exemple, mais la régularité, la qualité et l'accessibilité des informations rendent ce recensement exemplaire. The population census in India is an immense operation, which has been conducted every ten years since 1881. Today, the census involves counting 1 billion people, about whom it is possible to obtain detailed information, which is collected and published on the scale of villages—administrative units roughly equivalent to our municipalities. Of course, some criticisms can be made, since some information that would be useful for researchers is lacking—such as reference to cast, for example—but the regularity, quality and accessibility of the information provided by the Indian census make it exemplary.