The recent fall in oil prices is unlikely to unduly trouble the Gulf States. Prices need to drop much further and stay there before they run fiscal deficits, and even then large savings and low debt levels mean that governments shouldn’t have to tighten fiscal policy. Meanwhile, lower oil prices provide welcome, albeit limited, relief for the region’s resource-poor economies.
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