1st Edition

Economic Co-Operation in the Gulf Issues in the Economies of the Arab Gulf Co-Operation Council States

By Badr El Din A. Ibrahim Copyright 2007
176 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

With global concerns over rising oil prices, this book examines the major issues facing the economies of the Arab Gulf today, covering all six of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Providing a detailed account of the central features of the economies of the Arab Gulf, this book draws out the critical trends... Read more

Introduction  1. The AGCC Monetary Union  2. Intra-national Labour Mobility between AGCC States  3. Some Aspects of Liquidity of Islamic Banks in Two AGCC States  4. Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in the AGCC States: A Case of Oman  5. Conclusion

Biography

Badr El Din A. Ibrahim currently serves as an Economic Expert at the Ministry of Finance, Oman. He was previously Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Khartoum University, and thereafter Professor of Economics at the Modern College of Business and Science, Oman. He has written on SMEs, Islamic banking, adjustment programmes, & AGCC economies. He is the author of Banking and Finance to Small and Micro-enterprises in Sudan - Some Lessons from the Islamic Financing System (Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance, London, 2004).