Commodity booms are usually associated with commodity-exporting countries suffering from real exchange rate appreciation and negative economic consequences, that is, Dutch disease. Yet, there are different ways to manage or not manage the commodity rent earned via exports. Based on a monetary...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Rentier States towards Diversification: Case Study Gulf States -- Chapter 3 Food Security in the GCC Countries, towards a more Diversified and Sustained Economic Strategies -- Chapter 4 The Evolution of the Economic Relations between Turkey and the GCC...