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Appendix. Illustrative Labor Market Scenarios in GCC Countries, 1995-2010 »
Source: Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
Supply of Labor The supply for labor is projected on the basis of the World Bank estimates of working age population (World Development Indicators CD-ROM, 1997) and staff estimates o...
Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, 2010 »
Series: Balance of Payments Statistics
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 November 2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616350024.044
ISBN: 9781616350024
Keywords: liabilities, debt, payments, portfolio investment, loans, direct investment, financial derivatives, bonds, debt securities, equity securities
The BOPS Yearbook, usually published in December, contains balance of payments statistics for most of the world, compiled in accordance with the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual. Part 1 includes aggregate as well a...
Economic Diversification in the GCC »
Source: Economic Diversification in the GCC : Past, Present, and Future
Volume/Issue: 2014/12
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s): Tim Callen , Reda Cherif , Fuad Hasanov , Amgad Hegazy , and Padamja Khandelwal
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 December 2014
ISBN: 9781498303231
Keywords: Export diversification, Exports, Bahrain, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Cross country analysis, Economic growth, Oil revenues, Oman, Private sector, Saudi Arabia
Abstract: The economies of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are heavily reliant on oil. Greater economic diversification would reduce their exposure to volatility and uncertainty in the global oil m...
Exchange Rate Assessment for Oil Exporters »
Source: Exchange Rate Assessment for Oil Exporters
Volume/Issue: 2009/81
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Klaus-Stefan Enders
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 2009
ISBN: 9781451872286
Keywords: Exchange rate, current account, real exchange, government spending, real exchange rate,
While the underlying methodologies continue to be widely debated and refined, there is little consensus on how to assess the equilibrium exchange rate of economies dominated by production of finite natural resource...
Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices »
Source: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices : Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?
Volume/Issue: 2001/194
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Dalia Hakura , and Ehsan Choudhri
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2001
ISBN: 9781451859867
Keywords: Pass-through, exchange rate, inflation rate, average inflation, average inflation rate, Open Economy Macroeconomics,
The paper tests a hypothesis suggested by Taylor (2000) that a low inflationary environment leads to a low exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices. To test this hypothesis, the paper derives a pass-through re...
Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries »
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557757128.071
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
This volume comprises two separate papers on key structural aspects of the reform process in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The first paper addresses issues related to financial intermediation and reform i...
Front Matter »
Source: Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
This volume comprises two separate papers on key structural aspects of the reform process in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The first paper addresses issues related to financial intermediation and reform i...
Financial Systems and Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries »
Source: Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
Executive Summary • Since the end of the regional crisis in 1990-91, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 1 financial systems have witnessed a rapid d...
I. Introduction »
Source: Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
During the 1970s and the early 1980s, the GCC countries made significant progress in financial deepening and in building a modern financial infrastructure. Abundant oil revenue led to the accumulation of siz...
I. Introduction »
Source: Financial Systems and Labor Markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 November 1997
ISBN: 9781557757128
Keywords: labor market, employment, labor force, financial institutions, financial systems
A distinguishing feature of the GCC countries is the significant proportion of expatriate workers in the labor force and the segmentation of their labor markets. Better educated nationals traditionally have...