Gulf Arabs race to release youth potential in age of cheap oil
 

* States seek to more youth off payroll into private sector * Saudi finances especially strained, promotes entrepreneurs * Youth challenge cultural **rms by risk-taking, in**vating By **ah Browning DUBAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Like the prototype drone of Emirati student Talib Alhinai, the ambitions of young people across the Gulf Arab states need to soar if they - and their eco**mies - are to prosper in the age of cheap oil. Wearing a crisp white Arabian robe and headdress, Alhinai cranes his glasses upward as his drone climbs above an outdoor amphitheatre in downtown Dubai, and explains how it can swoop down and squirt 3D printed sealant onto damaged oil pipelines. Petrodollars won Gulf Arab states decades of prosperity, when loyalty and stability could be bought by giving graduates with subpar education cushy government posts.

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