United Arab Emirates: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
March 12, 2003
Summary
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix presents five essays examining issues in the United Arab Emirates related to the financial sector, long-term fiscal trends, fiscal sustainability, the competitiveness of the non-oil economy, and the labor market, as well as estimates of the real gross domestic income. The paper presents trends of financial soundness indicators; recent developments in the nascent equity, bond, and insurance markets; as well as progress made in implementing legislation on antimoney laundering and the combating of terrorism financing. It also assesses long-term trends and cross-Emirate variation in the fiscal structure.
Subject: Commercial banks, Current spending, Expenditure, Financial institutions, National accounts, Oil prices, Personal income, Prices, Total expenditures
Keywords: Commercial banks, CR, Current spending, development expenditure, expatriate worker, expenditure, Global, income, ISCR, Middle East, North Africa, oil income, oil price, Oil prices, Personal income, RGDP growth, Total expenditures
Pages:
108
Volume:
2003
DOI:
Issue:
067
Series:
Country Report No. 2003/067
Stock No:
1AREEA0032003
ISBN:
9781451801125
ISSN:
1934-7685






