Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 29

19-Jul-2010

GCC Countries Are Not Created Equal: Disproportion In GDP Weights, Economic Growth And Inflation

By Shawkat Hammoudeh and Won Joong Kim

This article was written for MEES by Prof Shawkat Hammoudeh of Drexel University in the US and Prof Won Joong Kim from Kangwon National University, South Korea.

We are currently conducting research on synchronization of business cycles between GCC countries and the US, the Eurozone and Japan. The project is...