Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? The Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows
July 1, 2008
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Summary
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in regional countries are strongly associated with remittance outflows from and the accumulation of financial surpluses in the GCC. Unlike in other developing and emerging market countries, growth in regional countries is not influenced by growth in the North, and is not export led. Linkages with the GCC could help sustain output growth in the regional countries in the face of the global economic slowdown and oil price shocks and could provide diversification gains to international capital seeking markets uncorrelated with Northern and emerging market countries.
Subject: Emerging and frontier financial markets, Oil prices, Private consumption, Private investment, Remittances
Keywords: current account, GCC remittance outflow, GDP, remittance, WP
Pages:
17
Volume:
2008
DOI:
Issue:
167
Series:
Working Paper No. 2008/167
Stock No:
WPIEA2008167
ISBN:
9781451870251
ISSN:
1018-5941
