Once used by only a few countries around the world ,Sovereign\u00a0Wealth Funds( SWF )are becoming an increasingly common feature\u00a0of international finance\u2020and state-led economic development .An\u00a0increasing number of countries ,predominantly developing countries,\u00a0who rely on the export of commodities such as hydrocarbons and\u00a0minerals are creating SWF portfolios .The exact motivation behind\u00a0creating an SWF varies between countries .Some SWFs aim to provide\u00a0funds for an aging or growing population while others invest the\u00a0funds in development and investment programmes to help diversify\u00a0revenue generation mechanisms .Others are explicitly designed to\u00a0cushion a country\u2019s economy from price shocks ,currency volatility\u00a0and general international economic instability.<\/p>\n
Once used by only a few countries around the world ,Sovereign\u00a0Wealth Funds( SWF )are becoming an increasingly common feature\u00a0of international finance\u2020and state-led economic development .An\u00a0increasing number of countries ,predominantly developing countries,\u00a0who rely on the export of commodities such as hydrocarbons and\u00a0minerals are creating SWF portfolios .The exact motivation behind\u00a0creating an SWF varies between countries .Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[294,45,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-1799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economics","8":"category-research-papers","9":"tag-fund","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-research-paper"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/8765645342.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-t1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}