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Calculating the income counterfactual for oil producing countries of the MENA region

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How much richer would the oil producing countries, in the Middle East, be if they invested all their natural resource rent? This study tries to answer this question by calculating the counterfactuals of capital stock and income under two major scenarios. Combining several data sets, including a unique one on sovereign wealth funds, it finds that the oil producing economies of the MENA region could have had on average about 0.4 percentage point higher growth rate if they had used their natural resource rents efficiently. This difference in growth rate translates to about 17% higher income over a 40 year period. These numbers are calculated for each country separately and their important policy implications are discussed.

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  • Majbouri, Mahdi, 2015. "Calculating the income counterfactual for oil producing countries of the MENA region," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 47-56.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jrpoli:v:44:y:2015:i:c:p:47-56
    DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.12.005
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    Keywords

    Resource rent; Economic growth; Middle East and North Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy

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