Higher oil and gas revenues are likely to prompt a modest shift to looser fiscal policy in the large Gulf economies, although Bahrain and Oman will still need to stick to austerity. Meanwhile, if OPEC+ were to raise production quotas more quickly in response to the surge in global energy prices, that would pose a major upside risk to our above-consensus GDP growth forecasts.
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