Saudi Arabia has experienced rapid growth in population, coupled with a rise in the standard of living and acceleration in social, agricultural and industrial growth, which has greatly increased the demand for water supplies. The Saudi government has embarked on an ambitious pla…
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This research focuses on an economic assessment of micro finance institutions (MFIs). Usually researches on MFIs consist of pure theoretical, empirical and institutional view. However, this study provides a different view by incorporating the financial model of MFI in a general …
Scope and Method of Study . The literature on "Dutch disease" emphasizes that an inflow of natural resource windfall in a country causes an appreciation of real exchange, thereby reducing the country's competitiveness. This phenomenon has triggered policy makers in countries exp…
Historically, fossil fuel consumers in most developing hydrocarbon-rich countries have enjoyed retail prices at a discount from international benchmarks. Governments of these countries consider the subsidy transfer to be a means for sharing the wealth from their resource endowme…
Effective sub-global initiatives to limit carbon emissions will result in substantial changes in the international demand for fossil energy, and this transfers policy costs to energy exporters. Most quantitative analysis of carbon policy, however, does not consider Saudi Arabia'…
The three-sector general equilibrium model of the Dutch Disease developed by Corden and Neary (1982) is adapted to a computable multisectoral framework to enable a comparison between the qualitative predictions of the theoretical models in the literature and the empirical soluti…