Content type

Chairs

Trade Topics

Year

Research

Trade in Ideas Training Workshop

11 May 2019

11, 2019 and was delivered by Dr Eskil Ulberg, senior research scholar ... university professionals, ministries professionals, researchers from The Research Council (TRC) and innovation stakeholders from various organizations ...

Oman's Trade potential with IORA Member States

17 December 2018

This research funded by World Trade Organization Chair Program hosted by SQU, and done by Abdallah Akintola under the guidance of Dr Houcine Boughanmi, Dr. Hemesiri Kotagama and Dr. Lokman Zaibet, sought ...

Assessing the Impact of WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement on Oman’s Economy

17 December 2018

The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement recently went into force following its ratification by two third of WTO members on 22 February 2017. The world trade report 2015 estimates showed that the full implementation of the TFA could reduce trade costs by an a ...

Welfare and distributional effects of the energy subsidy reform in the GCC countries: The case of Sultanate of Oman

17 December 2018

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) have recently embarked in an energy subsidy reform following the drastic drop of international oil prices in 2014. The reform consists of increasing energy prices (fuel, electricity, gas) in order to gradually ...

Service Trade Liberalization in Oman: International Commitments and Trade Performance

9 April 2018

The service sector constitutes an important and a growing sector of the global economy as well as in the Arab region. In Oman, the service sector accounts for the highest share in the sectoral composition of the GDP and constitutes a crucial component of ...

Food and Agricultural Trade in the GCC: An opportunity for South Asia?

9 April 2018

The purpose of the present study is to assess the export potential of food and agricultural items from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. We investigated the pattern of trade ...

Deeper Integration or Wider Integration?: The Case of the Gulf Cooperation Council

9 April 2018

We empirically evaluate whether fostering trade partnership within the region is a better economic course of action for the Gulf Cooperation Council than engaging into preferential trade arrangements with well-established trade blocs outside the region. W ...

Oman’s Fish Exports to the EU: Do SPS Measures Matter?

11 August 2017

Oman’s fish exports to the EU have been experiencing a declining trend since mid-2000s. This paper investigates whether the SPS measures adopted by the EU affect Oman’s fish exports to European markets. The results obtained from the dynamic unbalanced pan ...

The use of futures prices and options by Oman to manage wheat import price variability

11 August 2017

The objective of this paper is to evaluate whether using financial instruments such as commodity hedging using futures and options would help Oman to improve risk management in wheat imports. Around 61% of wheat imports by Oman during the period covered b ...

Exploratory Study on the Impact of Food and Fuel Prices on Poverty in Food Import Dependent and Oil Exporting Economies: The Case of Sultanate of Oman

1 June 2016

The drastic drop in fuel prices and the resulting fiscal constraints have compelled oil exporting countries to phase down fuel subsidies. This study with use of a simulation model developed by the World Bank has estimated the impact of increase in fuel pr ...