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Alexander Perjessy and Thaddeus Best of the Sovereign team discuss our forecasts for a protracted recovery of Gulf Cooperation Council economies this year, and the unique availability of these governments to tap into sovereign wealth fund assets to plug their fiscal deficits.

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