Failure is defined as an inability to provide employment for their growing populations.
Failure can also be defined as an inability to provide the public services which their populations have come to expect. In the GCC and elsewhere there exists a widespread belief that soon oil prices will rise together with export volumes. The consequent increasing revenues, so this consensus believes, will rescue these economies from the problems which loom. Hence, fundamental structural problems are not being addressed. If the consensus is correct then there will be no need for reform and the future will be on a business as usual basis.