You ask why the Qataris cannot manufacture their own products? Um, because they are too rich to bother, they can bring in anything they like from anywhere in the world. There is no real incentive to make cheap national products here; only the immigrant workers like ourselves require cheap deals. It's a shame that Qatar is not producing other things over and above their national product of oil and gas, but there was no traditional industry here and its probably cheaper to import from India. Where would Qatar be without India?