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Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil: Policy Adjustment in MENA and CCA Oil-Exporting Countries

By Martin Sommer, Allan G Auclair, Armand P Fouejieu, Inutu Lukonga, Saad N Quayyum, Amir Sadeghi, Gazi H Shbaikat, Andrew J Tiffin, Bruno Versailles

June 8, 2016

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Martin Sommer, Allan G Auclair, Armand P Fouejieu, Inutu Lukonga, Saad N Quayyum, Amir Sadeghi, Gazi H Shbaikat, Andrew J Tiffin, and Bruno Versailles. Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil: Policy Adjustment in MENA and CCA Oil-Exporting Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed December 2, 2024

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Summary

This paper discusses the challenges posed by low oil prices in the MENA and CCA regions, the adjustment policies adopted so far, and remaining adjustment needs and future risks.

Subject: Commodities, Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Oil, Oil prices, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: CCA country, Debt ratio, DP, DPPP, Exporter, Fiscal consolidation, GCC, GCC country, Global, Government debt management, Gulf exporter, IMF staff estimate, Oil, Oil exporter, Oil price, Oil prices, Price, U.S. dollar

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    52

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Departmental Paper No. 2016/008

  • Stock No:

    LLCOEA

  • ISBN:

    9781513520483

  • ISSN:

    2616-5333