All Outputs (2)

Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy (2023)
Thesis
Al-Thani, N. G. A. Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

For much of the last century, the resource curse theory has been used to explain the volatile and unproductive economic performance of resource-abundant states. By highlighting the negative institutional, political, and economic externalities associa... Read More about Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy.

On the competitiveness, emergence and regional links of financial centres. (1999)
Thesis
Fattouh, B. On the competitiveness, emergence and regional links of financial centres. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The purposes of this thesis are first, to provide a general framework to analyse the location of financial activity, second, to study the emergence and evolution of banking centres centres and finally, to test empirically several hypotheses related t... Read More about On the competitiveness, emergence and regional links of financial centres..