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Policy Challenges in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

May 23, 1996

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International Monetary Fund. Policy Challenges in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed 12/25/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557755827.072

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Summary

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries face important policy challenges and opportunities. This paper covers the economic developments and policies since 1980; the impact of the GCC's external environment; the medium-term economic prospects; the broad outlines of a common adjustment and reform strategy, and the implications of adjustment in the GCC countries on the rest of the Middle East and North Africa region.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Commodities, Employment, Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Oil, Oil prices, Prices

Keywords: country, Employment, GCC, GCC authorities, GCC citizen, GCC countries to oil, GCC country, GCC economy, GCC export, GCC import, GCC merchandise trade, Global, intra-GCC consideration, Labor markets, Middle East, MTU, Oil, Oil prices, staff country report