Report Description
The Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Oman & Yemen's market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Oman & 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 & Yemen's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.
Key Uses
- Forecast
the pace and stability of Oman & Yemen's economic and industry growth through end-2014
- Identify
and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Oman & Yemen, to facilitate risk mitigation
- Assess
the critical shortcomings of Oman & Yemen's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
- Contextualise
Oman & Yemen's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
- Target
business opportunities in Oman & Yemen's high-growth industry sectors
- Evaluate
external threats to doing business in Oman & 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:
Oman & Yemen's Political Outlook,
Oman & Yemen's Economic Outlook, and
Oman & Yemen's Business Environment.
Oman & Yemen's Political Outlook:
What are the political risks to doing business in Oman & Yemen over the next 5-years?
BMI's Oman & Yemen Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.
Oman & Yemen Political Outlook Contents
- SWOT Analysis for the Oman & Yemen's Market
Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Oman & Yemen.
- Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Oman & Yemen
BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Oman & Yemen's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
- Current Administration and Policy-making in Oman & Yemen
BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Oman & Yemen's government, assessing threats to the continuity of Oman & Yemen's economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
- Oman & Yemen's Foreign Policy
BMI examines key trends and shifts in Oman & Yemen's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.
Key Benefits
- Benchmark Oman & 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 in Oman & Yemen, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
- Gain valuable insights into the Oman & Yemen's government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.
Oman & Yemen's Economic Outlook:
How will Oman & Yemen's economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?
BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Oman & Yemen through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Oman & Yemen's growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.
Oman & Yemen Economic Outlook Contents
The Oman & Yemen Business Forecast Report
features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Oman & Yemen's government views. Underpinning our Oman & Yemen forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.
Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Oman & Yemen
- Economic Activity in Oman & Yemen
Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
- Fiscal Policy in Oman & Yemen
Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
- Monetary Policy in Oman & Yemen
Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
- Balance of Payments in Oman & Yemen
Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
- Foreign Direct Investment in Oman & Yemen
Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
- Oman & Yemen's External Debt
Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)
Key Benefits
- Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Oman & 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 & 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 Oman & Yemen's government economic policy
Oman & Yemen's Business Environment:
Oman & Yemen's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis
Short- and long-term business environment risk ratings for Oman & Yemen, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.
Country Competitiveness for Oman & Yemen
Competitiveness of Oman & Yemen's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.
Oman & Yemen Business Environment Contents
- Oman & Yemen's Domestic Environment.
Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
- Foreign Direct Investment in Oman & Yemen
Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
- Foreign Trade with Oman & Yemen
Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas