Government Involvement in the Qatari Economy

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This essay examines to what extent government should play a role in controlling a country's economy. The paper shows how the old discredited communist command economy model is still practiced in modest form in specific markets in the short-term by developing countries, such as Qatar, to ensure rapid growth and diversification in otherwise free-market-oriented national economies.

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"Even "Laissez-Faire" Capitalism, the purest form of a "free" market economy, could not function without at least a modicum of governmental control. For contracts have to be enforceable to ensure that goods and services paid for are delivered. Money, what's more, has to be printed and the amount in circulation carefully controlled, as it is the medium of exchange that underpins all economic activity in industrial and post-industrial societies. Governments must also regulate financial markets to ensure that investors aren't bilked by fraudulent or misleading stock-offerings. In every other respect, however, the Capitalist credo is that governments should adopt a "hands-off' approach to the day-to-day workings of markets. For left unfettered, they naturally achieve an equilibrium between buyers and sellers that guarantees the most efficient and product use of a country's resources. (Waud 1989)"

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