Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report

Published: 22 Sep 2011 Quarterly   

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The Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Oman and Yemen.

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Report Description

The Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report helps businesses with market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Oman and Yemen and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Oman and Yemen's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2020, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International (BMI).

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Oman and Yemen's economic and industry growth through end-2020.
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends, to facilitate risk mitigation.
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of the business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability.
  • Contextualise Oman and Yemen's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system.
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Oman and Yemen, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies.

The Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections: Political Outlook, Economic Outlook, and Business Environment.

Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Oman and Yemen over the next 10-years?

BMI's Oman and Yemen country risk ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats to political stability.

Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the Omani and Yemeni Market - Political Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing Oman and Yemen.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment - BMI's risk ratings assess explicit short- and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Oman and Yemen's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making BMI assesses the threats to the continuity of economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment.
  • Long-Term Political Outlook - BMI examines the structural risks to the stability of the political system and the dominant public policy issues likely to affect decision-makers, and outlines scenarios for how the polity could evolve over a decade horizon for key states.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Oman and Yemen's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their network of private and public sector sources.

Economic Outlook:

How will Omani and Yemeni economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2011-2020?

BMI provides our fully independent 5 and 10-year forecasts for Oman and Yemen through end-2020 for more than 50 economic and key industry indicators. We evaluate growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management.

Economic Outlook Contents

The Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2011 through to 2020 set against government view and our evaluation of global and regional prospects.

Typical Areas Covered:

  • Economic Activity - Real GDP growth; employment; inflation; consumption (wages, retail sales, confidence).
  • Balance of Payments - Trade and investment; current and capital account.
  • Monetary Policy - Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation and consumer price inflation).
  • Exchange Rate Policy - Currency controls; foreign investment flows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves.
  • Fiscal Policy - Macroeconomic strategy and policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, debt); tax reforms.
  • Foreign Direct Investment - Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate.
  • External Debt - Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure).
  • Global Assumptions - Forecasts for each year to end-2015, covering major commodities, growth in all major regions; inflation, interest rates and exchange rates in the US, Japan, China and the eurozone.
  • 10-Year Forecasts For Key States - Real and nominal GDP Growth; GDP by expenditure breakdown (where available); population; nominal per capita GDP (US$); inflation; exchange rates (versus US$ and, where appropriate, EUR); current account balance.

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent forecast scenarios for Oman and Yemen and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Oman and Yemen, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of government economic policy, which could significantly affect your company's business prospects, from BMI's team of analysts and economists.

Business Environment

Business environment risk ratings for Oman and Yemen, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness - Competitiveness of Oman and Yemen's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5 and 10-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

Business Environment Contents

  • Domestic Environment - Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT.
  • Foreign Direct Investment - Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments.
  • Foreign Trade - Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas.

Key Benefits

  • Assess your company's evolving exposure to countryspecific operational and business risks, using BMI's in-depth analysis of the legal and regulatory business environment.
  • Understand your market's comparative strengths and weaknesses in the key areas of commercial infrastructure and business institutions, using BMI's proprietary global Business Environment Risk Rating.

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