Domestic Public Resources in the Arab Region: Where Do We Stand?

The paper assesses the recent trends in domestic public resources in the Arab countries, with a focus on taxation systems, and provides a baseline in this context toward monitoring the commitments of countries according to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA). The analysis suggests that the share of revenues (excluding grants) to GDP in the Arab region, on average, is about 36 per cent, which is slightly lower than that of the average of the ‘advanced economies’ in 2014. But the volatility of the revenues in the Arab region is apparent as compared to that of the ‘advanced region’ or any other region of the world.

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