and training omanies to take the employment. >> susan? >> a little bit different in the sense it's a small native qatar population. 250,000 thought are qatari. women are entering in the workforce. they are very educated. the interesting thing good scheduled qataries can practicelily ask for the job and their price. because there is so much expansion and not enough qataries skilled to go around the jobs, there are opportunities for non-qataries in the workforce at a skilled level at a high paying level, and you're not taking any jobs from qataries. there is too much work to go around and local -- the local population can't fill the jobs. so it's a very different dynamic there. >> look, there is one last question that is also a group question, i think it might be a good one to end on. the first part of this question i'll have to ask you, you'll have to address, is this a true perception and then if so, what should be done about it. the questioner asked are european businesses more successful than u.s. businesses in your country. is it true?

so you do still have much of the economy run by omanis at our embassy. the majority of them are omanis but the per capita income is $20,000 a year. when you have $100,000 a year per capita, your need to enter the workforce at the jobs typically available are much less so that's an element that plays a role in what the expectations are and in what the needs are. i think in our country the omanis are doing a very good job of training and identifies where employment can be made available and then training omanis to take that employment. >> susan? >> it's a little bit different in qatar in the sense that it's a small, native qatary population. the country is 1.8 million, but of that, 250,000 are qatarry. women and then enter into the workforce, increasingly women, because they're very educated. the interesting thing is that good-skilled qatarrys can practically ask for their job. and almost ask for their price. and so, because there's so much expansion and not enough qatarrys that are skilled in these jobs, there are opportunities for nonqatarrys in the work

it's run largely by omanis and is a success in terms of american technology with omani openness to such investments. the areas domestically for oman is not a lot of population that's about 2 million omanis and they're looking to expand in a number of areas and tourism is their highest priority and they're also looking at services. and it's certainly training, franchising which has been mentioned and consultants and they're very much looking for consultants and good consultants to support the projects that are under way there. in terms of the structure of the market they have a couple of specific advantages and one is a free trade agreement with oman and more and more companies are leveraging that in order to be able to face production there for the oman market because of the advantages that accrue two of the free trade agreement and that leads to the second element of oman's attractiveness and that is oman as a platform. if you look at the map very quickly, one sees it has the great advantage of lying outside the gulf and outside the strait of hormuz and oman i think is consciously leve

there are about two million omanis.ut there are looking to expand their -- they are looking to expand their economy in a number of areas. tourism is probably their highest priority, but they need -- they're also looking at services, certainly training, franchising which has been mentioned. but consultancy, they're very much looking for good consultants to support the projects that are underway there. in terms of the structure of the market, they have a couple of specific advantages. one is we do have a free trade agreement with oman and more and more companies are leveraging that in order to be able to base production there for the oman market and beyond because of the advantages that accrue through the free trade agreement. and that sort of leads to the second element of oman's attractiveness, and that is oman as a mat form. if you look at the map very quickly, one sees it has the great advantage of lying outside the gulf, outside the strait of hormuz, and oman, i think, is consciously leveraging that gee photographic

there are about 2 million omanis. but they are looking to expand their economy in a number of areas. tourism is their highest priority but theirself also looking at services. certainly training franchising which has been mentioned but consultancy, they are very much looking for good consultants to support the projects that are under way there. in terms of the structure of the market, they have a couple of specific advantages. one is we do have a free trade agreement with oman and more and more companies are leveraging that in order to be able to ace production there for the oman market and beyond because of the advantages that accrue through the free trade agreement. that sort of leads to the second element of oman's attractiveness. that's oman as a platform. if you look at the map, quickly one cease it has the great advantage of lying outside the gulf and outside the strait and oman is constantly leveraging that geographic location in order to make itself the preferred low chacations for companies producing and marke

be made available and then training omanis to take that employment. >> yes, susan? >> it's a little bit different in the sense that it's a small native qatary population. it's a small population. men and women are entering the work force because they are educated. skilled qataris almost ask for the job and price. because there's so much expansion and not enough qataris who are skilled to go around in these jobs -- actually, that they're are opportunities for non-qataris in the work force at a skilled level, at a high paying level, and you're not taking any jobs from qataris. there's too much work to go around and the local population can't fill the jobs, and so it's a very different dynamic there. >> thank you. look, there's one last question that's really a group question. it might be a good one to end on. the first part of this question i'm going to have to ask you is you'll have to address is this a true perception? then, if so, what should be done about it? the questioner asks, why are european businesses in general so much more successful than u.s. businesses i