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  • OPEC in a Shale Oil World

    Where to Next?

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    RAMADy, MahdiOPec in a sHALE oil world –where to NEXT?With PREFACE by Dr. Sadad Al Husseini , former Board Member and Executive Vice President , Saudi Aramco."OPEC has played an important role since its founding and continues to do so, but it has to recognize that this role has now changed and the organization has to adapt to new challenges. This book provides some possible solu... ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Saudi Arabian Economy

    Policies, Achievements, and Challenges

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish and develop a framework for studying the fundamental challenges to the Saudi economy. Particular ... Read more

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  • Financial Regulation and Liberation

    Saudi Arabia’s Path Towards True Global Partnership

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book examines in depth, the centrality of the Saudi fixed currency regime to the US dollar, SAMA’s monetary tools, macro prudential policies and its supervision of the Saudi commercial banking sector and new sectors such as insurance, the emerging Fin Tech industry as well as a closer examination of SAMA’s investment policies as custodian of the local currency.Saudi Arabia has long been ... Read more

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  • Saudi Aramco 2030

    Post IPO challenges

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses the strategic shift in ownership of Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, and its potential impact on Aramco's role in a post- privatized world. Scheduled to become an IPO in 2018, Aramco is on the verge of becoming the largest IPO on the market. As the world’s largest oil and gas company, Aramco’s impending privatization has important implications for the world’s petroleum ... Read more

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  • Political, Economic and Financial Country Risk

    Analysis of the Gulf Cooperation Council

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    “Decades go by and nothing happens; then weeks go by and decades happen”. This apt saying encapsulates the dramatic convulsions taking place across the Arab world that first erupted in 2011 in Tunisia and which rapidly spread to other countries. These events have affected the lives of ordinary citizens in many more ways than had been intended when the ‘Arab Spring’ broke out, with the endgame ... Read more

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  • The GCC Economies

    Stepping Up To Future Challenges

    Edited by Mohamed A. Ramady ...
    The ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 has affected the countries of the region to varying degrees, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, comprising Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain. The GCC has become a significant regional bloc playing a vital economic and political role far beyond its shores, given its geopolitical strategic location, a preponderance of ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking

    Edited by Mohamed A. Ramady ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The term ‘wasta stems from the Arabic root for ‘middle’ or ‘medium*’* and describes the phenomenon of using ‘connections’ to find job, government services or other favors to circumvent bureaucracy or bypass the system as a whole. The effects of ‘wasta’ may be both positive or negative, and is not a phenomenon that is particular to the Arab or Muslim world, but also to many other cultures and ... Read more

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  • Political Economy of the Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economies
    Using four Gulf sovereign wealth funds as case studies – Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - this book examines and analyses the history, governance and structure, and investment strategies of the above mentioned funds, in the context of on-going debates about their transparency.The book discusses how most Gulf sovereign wealth funds were established under colonial rule, and have operated in ... Read more

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  • Back to the Future: Postwar Reconstruction and Stabilization in Lebanon

    Series Book 176 - Occasional Papers
    Following the 15-year civil war that started in 1975, Lebanon's government began the difficult task of economic stabilization and confidence building, on the one hand, and postwar reconstruction and development, on the other. The government led the reconstruction effort by formulating programs that aimed to rapidly rehabilitate the country's severly damaged infrastructure in preparation for ... Read more

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  • Confronting Poverty in Iraq: Main Findings

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