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    Sustaining Standard of Living Amidst Volatile Oil Prices – Lessons from the Gulf Countries

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    Date
    2016
    Author
    Khaleefah, Al Sabah
    Palliam, Ralph
    Al-Salem, Athmar
    Type
    Journal Article
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    Abstract
    Improving living standards amidst falling oil prices among countries relying heavily on an ample supply of oil presents numerous challenges. Therefore, the relationship associated with oil price changes with identifiable metrics that explain standards of living becomes critical. The following issues are presented in this paper: the management of wealth; sustaining a standard of living; peculiarities of oil trade; oil price determination; and management and the uncharacteristic application of supply and demand. Since aspects of the world oil market remain unclear and opaque, society is in need of credible research and verifiable theory. Data relating to Kuwait over a 32-year period (1983 – 2014) were obtained. Five independent variables—investment growth, inflation, percentage change in price per barrel, unemployment, and percent change in the number of incarcerations—are regressed with a change in real GDP (dependent variable). Finally, to determine the robustness of the model, the Durbin-Watson test was used. The coefficient of determination (r2 ) suggests that 66.24% of variations in lifestyle can be explained by variations in the five independent variables (p < 0.01). Standards of living can be sustained by increasing growth in investment, decreasing inflation, decreasing unemployment and incarcerations, and most importantly increasing the price of oil. This study places Kuwait as a proxy for the Gulf Countries and should ideally be extended to the other five Gulf Countries. Comparative studies over multiple periods of time ought to be undertaken to measure the robustness of different sustainability measures.
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    https://dspace.auk.edu.kw/handle/11675/7697
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D81G0M3Z
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