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9 - Savings and Investment Decisions from Natural Resource Revenues

Implications for Arab Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Ibrahim Elbadawi
Affiliation:
Dubai Economic Council and Economic Research Forum (ERF), Egypt
Hoda Selim
Affiliation:
Economic Research Forum (ERF), Egypt
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The Arab World is fortunate to have large endowments of oil and gas. The level of endowments across countries of the Arab region varies: the Gulf states which have massive endowments and small populations, and other states which have more moderate endowments and much larger populations. I will refer to the latter as Middle-Income Middle-East States (MIMES). These differences in resource endowments have implications for both the decision as to how much of resource revenues should be saved, and how much of the savings should be invested domestically. In this chapter, the author discusses principles and rules for saving and investment appropriate to the GCC and MIMES

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Ali, O. and Elbadawi, I.. This volume. The Political Economy of Public Sector Employment in Resource-dependent Countries.Google Scholar
Collier, P. (2010). The Plundered Planet. Oxford University Press and Penguin.Google Scholar

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