In 1947, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) began a malaria control program in Saudi Arabia. Historians of development focus on state-led schemes, ignoring corporate policy. The story of ARAMCO's malaria control efforts indicates that corporate objectives significantly influenced American--Saudi relations in the immediate post-World War II era. Regardless of corporate research that interpreted malaria as a symptom of underdevelopment, the company persisted with the most common control measures at the time, assaults on the mosquito. In contrast, Saudi Arabia and the World Health Organization connected the disease to economic stagnation and its control to development.
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