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Book SynopsisSovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies explains the fiscal rules and institutional structures that can make SWFs thrive, providing a practical and theoretical guide to their optimal use in resource-revenue management. Khalid Alsweilem and Malan Rietveld's institutional perspective examines both investment and disbursement strategies.
Trade ReviewIn linking the theoretical and practical issues regarding sovereign wealth funds, the authors provide insight and knowledge few others can match. This is a readable and ambitious book-a manifesto for how to think about sovereign wealth funds in the twenty-first century. -- Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Introduction Part I. An Institutional Perspective on Resource Economies and the Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds 1. The Most Disadvantageous Lottery in the World: Historic Controversies Around Natural Resources and Economic Prosperity 2. Getting to Denmark: Institutional and Political Problems of Resource-Dependent Economies 3. Guardians of the Future Against the Claims of the Present: Sovereign Wealth Funds as an Institutional Response to the Resource Curse 4. To Be Boring: Institutional Lessons from the Modern Monetary Consensus for Sovereign Wealth Funds Part II. Rule-Based Fiscal Policies for Sovereign Wealth Funds 5. It's (Still) Mostly Fiscal: Simple Fiscal Rules for Accumulating Windfall Resource Revenues in a Sovereign Wealth Fund 6. Integrated Fiscal Rules for Sovereign Wealth Funds: Spending, Saving, and Stabilizing Resource Revenues 7. Governing the Fiscal Rule: The Design and Institutional Infrastructure of Fiscal Rules for Resource Revenues Part III. The Governance of Operationally Independent Sovereign Investment Institutions 8. Public Footprints in Private Markets: Institutional Arrangements in Delegated Sovereign Investment Management 9. Shadows and Siren Calls: Rules and Contracts in Delegated Sovereign Wealth Fund Management 10. Summary Notes References Index
