Investigates some of the 'new power brokers' in the world economy: the oil-exporting states of the Gulf. This title aims to fill this gap with a rigorous scholarly analysis based on primary sources and raw economic data. It brings together the expertise of academics who have dev…
This volume brings together, for the first time, distinguished Gulf experts to analyze the renewed geo-economic prominence of the oil-exporting states if the Gulf. It investigates some of these 'new power brokers' in the world economy and what this shift in global economic power…
This volume brings together, for the first time, distinguished Gulf experts to analyze the renewed geo-economic prominence of the oil-exporting states if the Gulf. It investigates some of these 'new power brokers' in the world economy and what this shift in global economic power…
This title brings together the perspectives of a group of experts who focus on these important issues, and explores the appropriateness of pegging to the dollar for both individual countries prior to monetary union and for the subsequent union itself. This book - written by lea…
In preparation for monetary union most of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have pegged their currencies rigidly to the US dollar. However, the relatively dramatic movements in the US dollar in the recent past, and also in the early 1990s, have called this practice in…