Country
Rent per capita
Public Wage Bill per capita
Index of Political
Repression
Unrest
(2010– 2012)
US$ thousands
US$ thousands
(PPP)
0 =
most repressive,
8 =
least
1 =
regime change;
2 =
major conflict;
3 =
minor conflict; 4 = little to none
Populous Arab Oil ExportersIraq
1,775
0.5
0.3
n/a
Algeria
1,563
0.4
3.3
3
Syria
532
0.1
2.9
2
Egypt
313
1.9
2.8
1
Sudan
288
0.1
0.6
3
Ye m e n
— 0 .1
2. 9
1
Non- GCC Median
532
0.2
2.8
2 (mean)
Notes
: Libya was not analyzed. Units: Rent per capita is in thousands of current US dollars, with data from Paul Collier and Anke Ho
effler, “Testing
the Neocon Agenda: Democracy in Resource- Rich Societies,”
European Economic Review
53, no. 3 (2009): 293– 308, https: //doi .org /10 .1016 /j
.euroecorev .2008 .05 .006, who use data from the World Bank’s adjusted savings project. Public Wage Bill per capita is in
thousands of real PPP dollars,
from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook database. Political repression is measured by the index of Physical Integrity Rights: Dav
id L. Cingranelli,
“The Cingranelli- Richards Human Rights Dataset Version 2008.03.12,” http: //www .humanrightsdata .org, 2008.Source
: Omer Ali and Ibrahim Elbadawi, “The Political Economy of Public Sector Employment in Resource Dependent Countries,” Cairo: ERF
Working Paper, 2012; unrest index estimates made by author.
TABLE 7.1
Public employment, political repression, and unrest (annual average: 2000– 2007) (
continued
)