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ERF to Hold Kuwait Conference on Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies
The Economic Research Forum (ERF) will hold a conference on Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies on November 4-5, 2015, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The event, being held in cooperation with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social... Read More
Institutions, Oil and Macroeconomic Management… What Does it Take to End the Resource Curse?
This blog is written by Hoda Selim, an economist at the Economic Research Forum Natural resource wealth has been often blamed for the poor economic and development outcomes in oil-rich Arab countries. It has been claimed that the special characteristics... Read More
It Takes Two Functioning Cylinders to Operate the Macroeconomic Locomotive
The Fiscal-Monetary Interdependence in Oil-Dependent Arab Economies This blog is written by Ibrahim Elbadawi, director of the Macroeconomics Research and Forecasting Department at the Dubai Economic Council and Research Fellow at ERF As part of the ERF research theme on... Read More
Don’t Blame the Abundance of Oil!
Kamiar Mohaddes, ERF Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer and Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK. According to the resource curse paradox, abundance of oil (natural gas, minerals and other non-renewable resources) is believed to be an important determinant... Read More