, especially during periods of global disruption. These findings emphasize the critical need for economic diversification in the … diversification. Both external and domestic investments emerge as critical drivers of long-term growth, while persistent challenges … valuable insights to the policy discussion on economic diversification in the GCC. Policymakers are urged to prioritize FDI …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …