Annika Kropf
Oil Export Economies: New Comparative Perspectives on the Arab Gulf States.
with a foreword by Giacomo Luciani
Annika Kropf - 2016
Despite their commonalities, the Arab Gulf States have started economic diversification from different settings and against different political backgrounds. This book applies a multi-method approach including Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to highlight their heterogeneous economic development trajectories and to compare them to other major oil exporters. From a political economy perspective, it demonstrates how neoclassical economic theory fails to grasp the underlying mechanisms of their development. The research de...
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