This study explores the impact of oil sector on global competitiveness of the GCC states in a panel data framework for the period from 2006 to 2014. The focus is placed on how the non-traditional factors; oil rents, fuel exports as percentage of merchandise exports, oil prices, and mining sector...

The United States and the global oil era -- A new security framework -- The United States, economics, and energy -- China's steep ascent in the Persian Gulf -- Global oil and China's economic penetration -- Russia, from Cold War to the modern era -- Russia's trade and energy shift -- How...

This volume focuses on the role of the private sector in diversifying the economics of Gulf countries in the post-petrodollar era, when fluctuating and declining oil prices are negatively impacting national expenditures. It explores current policies of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council...

Amid low oil prices and rising debts, the Arab region faces a challenging economic outlook. At the same time, development priorities related to decent work, poverty and social justice are more pressing than at any other time in the region’s recent history. Fiscal policy offers many of the...

The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency for oil. This paper examines how these dynamics result in a misalignment of the U.S. monetary...

The United Arab Emirates are resolutely diversifying their economy away from oil dependency. A top-down commitment to include the Emirati workforce into an increasing knowledge-based economy is visible in the federal efforts undertaken to promote entrepreneurship. A federal entity dedicated to...

This study examines the status of women’s representation at several levels of governance, including the legislative, the executive, the judiciary, the public service, and local councils, throughout the Arab region. It finds that although there has been some progress in the representation of...

Introduction : International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation States / Marcus L. Stephenson -- Part One. Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council Region. Theoretical Approaches to the Political Economy of Tourism in the GCC States / Matthew Gray -- Tourism and Geopolitics...