VOL. XLI

No. 37

14-September-1998

OPEC

Gulf Economies: The Challenge Of Oil Price Variations And the NeedFor Reforms

by 'Abd al-Latif al-Hamad

The following is the text of a presentation made by Mr. Abd al-Latif al-Hamad,Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) and former KuwaitiMinister of Finance, at the Oxford Energy Seminar on 7 September and in London on 8September at the conference on "World Oil Prices" organized by the Centre forGlobal Energy Studies (CGES) and...