This chapter examines major highlights on macroeconomic and fiscal issues affecting the Kuwaiti economy based on different oil price assumptions. Forecast, analysis and simulations are performed using the Kuwait SCPD macro model. For the Kuwait economy, the author has explored three scenarios...

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...