The GCC Economies : Stepping Up To Future Challenges

edited by Mohamed A. Ramady

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Overview -- Mohamed A. Ramady -- Part 1 Regional Structural Reforms and Engines of Change -- 1 Working for a Sustainable GCC Future: Reflections on Policies and Practices, Nabil Sultan -- 2 Deepening the GCC Debt Market: The Saudi Arabia Experience, Abraham Abraham, and Fazal Seyyed -- 3 GCC economic integration: statistical harmonization for an effective Monetary Union, Ikhlaas Gurrib -- 4 E-Learning in the Arab Gulf: Responding to the Changing World of Education, Nabil Sultan, Sylvia van de Bunt-Kokhuis, Christopher Davidson, Alain Sentini, and David Weir -- Part II Sustainable Security: Oil, Renewable Energy and Food -- 5 Energy Security in the EU from the GCC’s Perspective, Mohammed A. Alsahlawi -- 6 Going Nuclear in the GCC countries -Rationale, Challenges and Politics, Ashutosh Sharma, Nabil Sultan and David Weir -- 7 Meeting the Renewable Energy and Sustainability Challenges in GCC Economies: MASDAR Initiative Case Study, Toufic Mezher and Jacob Park -- 8 Food Security in the GCC Economies, Andy Spiess -- Part III Regional Risk, Global Competitiveness and Economic Diversification -- 9 GCC Country Risk Analysis, Hassan El Sady -- 10 The Macroeconomic Competitiveness of the GCC Economies, Ahmed Khalifa -- 11 GCC Intellectual Property Regimes: Global Harmonization or Regional Integration?, David Price -- 12 Economic Diversification in Saudi Arabia: The Need for Improving Competitiveness for Sustainable Development, M. Sadiq Sohail -- 13 Successful Outward FDI investments: Saudi Lessons and Recommendations, Marwan Al Qur’an -- 14 Foreign Direct Investment in Saudi Arabia: A Competitiveness Analysis, Mohammad H. Akhtar -- Part IV Corporate Governance, Transparency and Private Sector Operating Environment -- 15 Corporate Disclosure and Reporting Practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Haidar H. Madani -- 16 Corporate Governance regulations - The Experience of Saudi Arabia, Nadia Anani -- 17 An analysis of entrepreneurship characteristics in Saudi Arabia, Hazbo Skoko -- 18 The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Motivation among Women: A Comparative Study of Businesswomen in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Mohammed Sadi and Basheer Al-Ghazali -- 19 Influencing Factors Model of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Hazbo Skoko -- Part V Investing Surplus Wealth: GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF’s) -- 20 GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds: Challenges, Opportunities and Issues Arising from their Growing Presence on the Global Landscape, Ruth Rios-Morales, Mohamed A. Ramady, and Louis Brennan -- 21 The Misconceptions in the West regarding the Gulf Region Sovereign Wealth Funds, Behzad Shahandeh -- 22 The Governance of Sovereign Wealth Funds from the GCC in an International Perspective, Sven Behrendt -- 23 Putting Sovereign Wealth Funds to Good Use: Strategic Options for SWFs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region, Mohammed Salisu and Nahed Taher -- Bibliography -- Index

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Year of publication:	2012
Other Persons:	Ramady, Mohamed A. (contributor)
Publisher:	New York, NY : Springer New York
Subject:	Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration \| Regional economic integration \| Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen \| International economic relations \| Internationaler Wettbewerb \| International competition \| Auslandsinvestition \| Foreign investment \| Nachhaltige Entwicklung \| Sustainable development \| Staatsfonds \| Sovereign wealth fund \| Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Corporate Governance \| Corporate governance \| Arabische Golf-Staaten \| Gulf countries \| Gulf Cooperation Council \| Wirtschaftskooperation \| Wirtschaftspolitik
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XLIX, 324p. 29 illus, digital)
Series:	SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record The GCC Economies; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Overview; Part I: Regional Structural Reforms and Engines of Change; Chapter 1: Working for a Sustainable GCC Future: Reflections on Policies and Practices; Introduction; From Desert to Skyscrapers; Beyond Oil; Foreign and National Labor: Getting the Balance Right; Taking Care of Education; Investments and Cooperation; Conclusions; Chapter 2: Deepening the GCC Debt Markets: The Saudi Arabian Experience; Characteristics of Debt Instruments and Markets; Islamic Banking and Debt Markets; The Sukuk Market Obstacles and Constraints Hindering Growth in the Saudi Debt MarketStandardization and Establishment of a Legal Framework; Limited Investor Base and Lack of Liquidity; Listing on Organized Exchanges; Rating; Lack of Active Market Makers (Dealers); Absence of a Risk-Free Yield Curve; Development of a Securitized Mortgage Market; Conclusions; Chapter 3: GCC Economic Integration: Statistical Harmonization for an Effective Monetary Union; Introduction; The Need for a Monetary Union; Common Features Among the GCC Countries; Business Cycle Harmonization; Stable Exchange Rates The Importance of Economic ConvergenceImportance of Prerequisite Nominal Criteria; EMU: An Example of Convergence Criteria; Research Methodology and Data; Conversion Rate of the New Gulf Currency; Robustness of the New Currency Rate; Research Findings; Long-Run Relationships; Short-Run Relationships; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4: E-Learning in the Arab Gulf: Responding to the Changing World of Education; E-Learning Context Worldwide; E-Learning in the Arab World; E-Learning in GCC countries; Features Influencing the Potential for E-Learning; Implementation Dilemmas; Future Challenges Cultural DynamicsTraditional Social Networks; Online Communication; Cultural Key Dimensions; Next Generation of E-Learners; Online Social Networks; Access to E-Learning; Credibility of Online Content; Language Barrier; Crisis in Pedagogy and Identity; The Impact of Innovations; Conclusions; Part II: Sustainable Security: Oil, Renewable Energy and Food; Chapter 5: Energy Security in the EU from GCC Perspective; Introduction; EU Energy Supply and Demand; Energy Security in the EU; EU-GCC Equal Opportunities; Conclusions Chapter 6: Going Nuclear in the GCC Countries: Rationale, Challenges, and PoliticsApplications of Nuclear Power in the GCC Countries; Country-Specific Analysis; Kuwait; Qatar; UAE; Saudi Arabia; Oman; Bahrain; The Rationale for Diversification; The Impact of the Fukushima Incident; Conclusions; Chapter 7: Meeting the Renewable Energy and Sustainability Challenges in GCC Economies: Masdar Initiative Case Study; Introduction; Triple Bottom Line Context of GCC Renewable Energy and Energy Security Priorities; Building Sustainable Development Knowledge and Capacity in the GCC Region Meeting the Global Climate Change and Sustainability Challenges
ISBN:	978-1-4614-1611-1 ; 978-1-4614-1610-4
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-1-4614-1611-1 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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