The oil export revenues contribute to the settlement of economic and institutional structures that make Saudi Arabia a prototypical rentier-state. The predominance of oil revenues, combined with socio-political parameters specific to the countries, has led the Petro-monarchy to implement a particular set of economic policies, which are analyzed here as the mode of regulation of the oil-rent-caused growth regime, rather than as gradual attempts to restrict the country’s dependence on oil. The rationalization of the Saudi rentier regime relies heavily on migrant workers and on sovereign wealth funds. The Saudi economy seems nevertheless caught up in an unstable dynamics: the country’s demographics and the mass unemployment among Saudis underm...
The Middle Eastern political economy has long been studied through the prism of the resource curse—t...
Oil rent has created a regional dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) whereby major pol...
This study examines the role of oil exports in the economic development of Saudi Arabia. It is an ec...
The oil export revenues contribute to the settlement of economic and institutional structures that m...
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf oil monarchies, represents an original politico- economic system...
The Saudi academic Mamoun Fandy (1999:252-53) observes that rentier analysis dominates contemporary ...
International audienceThe oil price drop which occurred in international markets in 2014 has revived...
En Arabie Saoudite, la contribution du secteur pétrolier au Produit Intérieur Brut est encore aujour...
Plus de cinquante ans après leur indépendance, la majorité des pays de la région Afrique du Nord et ...
The kafala : a transitory management system of capital and labour in the Gulf Countries. Gilbert BE...
Global dependence on oil has not only radically transformed our economies, but also altered domestic...
More than fifty years after their independence, most of the countries of Middle East and North Afric...
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi ...
ABSTRACT Ever since its discovery, oil and its rents have strongly impacted the development of the G...
The oil price drop which occurred in international markets in 2014 has revived concerns about the ec...
The Middle Eastern political economy has long been studied through the prism of the resource curse—t...
Oil rent has created a regional dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) whereby major pol...
This study examines the role of oil exports in the economic development of Saudi Arabia. It is an ec...
The oil export revenues contribute to the settlement of economic and institutional structures that m...
Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf oil monarchies, represents an original politico- economic system...
The Saudi academic Mamoun Fandy (1999:252-53) observes that rentier analysis dominates contemporary ...
International audienceThe oil price drop which occurred in international markets in 2014 has revived...
En Arabie Saoudite, la contribution du secteur pétrolier au Produit Intérieur Brut est encore aujour...
Plus de cinquante ans après leur indépendance, la majorité des pays de la région Afrique du Nord et ...
The kafala : a transitory management system of capital and labour in the Gulf Countries. Gilbert BE...
Global dependence on oil has not only radically transformed our economies, but also altered domestic...
More than fifty years after their independence, most of the countries of Middle East and North Afric...
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi ...
ABSTRACT Ever since its discovery, oil and its rents have strongly impacted the development of the G...
The oil price drop which occurred in international markets in 2014 has revived concerns about the ec...
The Middle Eastern political economy has long been studied through the prism of the resource curse—t...
Oil rent has created a regional dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) whereby major pol...
This study examines the role of oil exports in the economic development of Saudi Arabia. It is an ec...