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Managing the Oil Wealth: Foreign Assets of GCC Countries
Nader Habibi
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Crown Center
Inaugural Crown Paper
Managing the Oil Wealth: Foreign Assets of GCC Countries
Prof. Nader Habibi
Record high oil revenues in the past five years have led to the accumulation of sizable foreign assets. The value of these assets in Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) are expected to reach at least $2,800 billion by 2012. Prof. Nader Habibi's Crown Paper Managing the Oil Wealth: Foreign Assets of GCC Countries assesses the size of the considerable GCC foreign assets, the projections for their growth over the next five years, the allocation of these investments among various types of financial and physical assets. Throughout, the political and strategic considerations that affect GCC investors’ preferences for various investment in geographical areas is analyzed. Special attention is given to the substantial Sovereign Wealth Funds and the implications of the call for multilateral regulations. Read the full Crown Paper
Crown Papers are peer-reviewed articles providing a platform for the Crown Center's research staff and other members of the scholarly community to publish their original research on the contemporary Middle East.