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Saudi Arabia, a country on the verge of demographic transition, experiences a rapid growth in population – both native an expatriate. Ministry of Economics and Planning published a report entitled “Population and Housing Census 2010”, recently. In comparison to...Read More

Article in Bold: quarterly journal of the International Institute on Aging (United Nations - Malta) 11/2013 Read More

Saudi Arabia is a prime destination and source of remittances from workers for many coun- tries in Asia and the Arab world. As of mid-2013, expatriates made up 32 percent of the Kingdom’s population, most of them coming from South Asia. They accounted for 56.5 percent...Read More

The main aim of this paper is to explore empirically the validity of the monetary thesis of inflation in the small open developing economy of the United Arab of Emirates. Read More

Under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. In the context of the 2013 Article IV consultation with United Arab Emirates, the following documents have been released. Read More

The UAE’s Union Law 10 of 1980 stresses that one of the major tasks of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates is to “support the currency, maintain its stability and ensure its free convertibility into foreign currencies”. In practice, this has translated into...Read More

Data on growth, expansion, real estate sector, inflationary pressures, challenges facing banking system, credit growth, and monetary policy. Read More

This Selected Issues paper highlights the achievements in the diversification of the economy and the developments and outlook of the hydrocarbon sector, while providing some insight into the labor market issues in the U.A.E. In addition, the recent developments in the...Read More

Emiratization, a program designed to achieve a target ratio of domestic to foreign workers employed by the private sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is the source of considerable debate in the economic and political arena of the country. This paper applies the...Read More

The paper examines the labor migration integration patterns, causes, and implications of deskilling on high-skilled Cameroonian labor migrants in the UAE Read More