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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) (

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