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Notes

INTRODUCTION

1 www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2005
(accessed October 18, 2006). Of the GCC nations, only Saudi Arabia
has a mediocre score in Transparency International’s Corruption
Perceptions Index, but even its performance is superior to China’s or
India’s. All the other GCC nations rival well-known emerging
markets such as Taiwan and South Korea in being relatively
uncorrupt places to do business.
2 US Treasury, Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities,
www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt (last accessed May 16, 2007). Figures
as of March 2007.
3 “Kuwait to invest $720 million in IPO of China’s ICBC,” Yahoo!
Singapore, September 24, 2006, sg.biz.yahoo.com/060924/
3/43mep.html (last accessed May 18, 2007).
4 IMF and the Economist, 2005 data (accessed 2006).
5 Ibid.
6 Qatar National Bank, 2006.
7 Wall Street Journal, October 2005.
8 Yahoo Finance, accessed 2006.
9 International Herald Tribune, March 2006.
10 Dubai Municipality, Census, official figures.
11 www.ameinfo.com/28375.html.
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