The GCC Economies: Stepping Up To Future Challenges

Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Overview.- Mohamed A. Ramady.- Part 1 Regional Structural Reforms and Engines of Change .- 1 Working for a Sustainable GCC Future: Reflections on Policies and Practices, Nabil Sultan.- 2 Deepening the GCC Debt Market: The Saudi Arabia Experience, Abraham Abraham, and Fazal Seyyed.- 3 GCC economic integration: statistical harmonization for an effective Monetary Union, Ikhlaas Gurrib.- 4 E-Learning in the Arab Gulf: Responding to the Changing World of Education, Nabil Sultan, Sylvia van de Bunt-Kokhuis, Christopher Davidson, Alain Sentini, and David Weir.- Part II Sustainable Security: Oil, Renewable Energy and Food .- 5 Energy Security in the EU from the GCC's Perspective, Mohammed A. Alsahlawi.- 6 Going Nuclear in the GCC countries -Rationale, Challenges and Politics, Ashutosh Sharma, Nabil Sultan and David Weir.- 7 Meeting the Renewable Energy and Sustainability Challenges in GCC Economies: MASDAR Initiative Case Study, Toufic Mezher and Jacob Park.- 8 Food Security in the GCC Economies, Andy Spiess.- Part III Regional Risk, Global Competitiveness and Economic Diversification.- 9 GCC Country Risk Analysis, Hassan El Sady.- 10 The Macroeconomic Competitiveness of the GCC Economies, Ahmed Khalifa.- 11 GCC Intellectual Property Regimes: Global Harmonization or Regional Integration?, David Price.- 12 Economic Diversification in Saudi Arabia: The Need for Improving Competitiveness for Sustainable Development, M. Sadiq Sohail.- 13 Successful Outward FDI investments: Saudi Lessons and Recommendations, Marwan Al Qur'an.- 14 Foreign Direct Investment in Saudi Arabia: A Competitiveness Analysis, Mohammad H. Akhtar.- Part IV Corporate Governance, Transparency and Private Sector Operating Environment.- 15 Corporate Disclosure and Reporting Practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Haidar H. Madani.- 16 Corporate Governance regulations - The Experience of Saudi Arabia, Nadia Anani.- 17 An analysis of entrepreneurship characteristics in Saudi Arabia, Hazbo Skoko.- 18 The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Motivation among Women: A Comparative Study of Businesswomen in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Mohammed Sadi and Basheer Al-Ghazali.- 19 Influencing Factors Model of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Hazbo Skoko.- Part V Investing Surplus Wealth: GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF's).- 20 GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds: Challenges, Opportunities and Issues Arising from their Growing Presence on the Global Landscape, Ruth Rios-Morales, Mohamed A. Ramady, and Louis Brennan.- 21 The Misconceptions in the West regarding the Gulf Region Sovereign Wealth Funds, Behzad Shahandeh.- 22 The Governance of Sovereign Wealth Funds from the GCC in an International Perspective, Sven Behrendt.- 23 Putting Sovereign Wealth Funds to Good Use: Strategic Options for SWFs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Region, Mohammed Salisu and Nahed Taher.- Bibliography.- Index