Through innocuous-sounding government “supervision” and “regulation” – and under the guidance of the major international financial institutions – ruling elites managed to run entire sectors of the economy as personal fiefdoms. While this pattern of official behavior is reprehensible, the real disaster is that it destroyed Arabs’ economic productivity and initiative.
事实上，政府官员及其亲信们并不是直接参与了盗窃抢劫，而是通过冠冕堂皇的政府“监督”和“规管”——而且是在各大重要国际金融机构的指导下——将整个国家金融部门变成了自己的私人领地。这种官员行为本身应当受到谴责，但其真正的危害则在于破坏了整个阿拉伯地区的经济生产力和主动性。