IMF Staff Country Reports

United Arab Emirates: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 12, 2003

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International Monetary Fund. "United Arab Emirates: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 067 (2003), accessed 12/8/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451801125.002

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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