This does Yemen an injustice as, in manyways, the country has considerable potential and is presently, in spite of the poor worldeconomic climate, as well placed as at any time in its history, to make a quantum leap ineconomic development. In some respects, Yemen could be said to be actually in advance ofits richer neighbour e.g. in the use of the Internet and in parliamentary government.
Yemen – the Forgotten Market
Apart from that most famous modernYorkshire Yemeni, the boxer Prince Naseem and the occasional report of the kidnapping of aforeigner by Northern tribes, Yemen does not feature a great deal in the media. Thecountry appears as a poor and rather inhospitable shadow of its neighbour Saudi Arabiawith whom it shares a long and sometimes disputed border.