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1Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
Energy Productivity
as a New Growth
Model for GCC
Countries
Kankana Dubey, Marzio
Galeotti, Nicholas Howarth
and Alessandro Lanza
October 2016 KS-1645-DP039A
2Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
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Acknowledgement
This paper has been prepared as part of the joint KAPSARC-UNESCWA project ‘Energy
Productivity in the GCC’ and we would like to thank our UNESCWA Colleagues for much
helpful input and advice. it is a paper which will be used as input to a joint report on
improving energy productivity in the GCC region.
3Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
F
ollowing the collapse in oil prices, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have intensified efforts
to find a new growth model which increases the welfare of their citizens, while reducing exposure to
volatile energy markets. This paper argues that placing energy productivity at the heart of such a new
growth paradigm offers a compelling path forward to strengthen economic diversification, energy efficiency
and innovation efforts. Key findings of this paper include:
Setting national energy productivity targets would provide a powerful signal on the future direction of
government policies and increase transparency to monitor and evaluate progress. Clear, shared goals
can also act as a helpful coordinating instrument between different stakeholders.
Evidence suggests that greater economic value and per capita income is possible along a high-energy
productivity growth pathway. Higher energy productivity can help address the Gulf’s “energy paradox”
of the current growth model driving higher energy consumption as a proportion of energy production,
while relying on energy export revenues for public investment and spending to support growth.
Many advanced economies show strong evidence of having successfully decoupled economic growth
from energy consumption along a high-energy productivity pathway. GCC countries exhibit this trait
only weakly, if at all.
Setting energy productivity goals could constitute a regionally appropriate form of ‘‘green growth’’ and
also strengthen GCC engagement with various international processes such as the UNFCCC and G-20
initiatives on energy and the environment.
Key Points
4Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
Summary
over relied on their central banks. While productivity
has long been recognized as the foundation of
economic growth, we have heard a lot less about
the structural reform needed to drive it than perhaps
we should.
This paper makes the case for placing energy
productivity at the center of economic development
strategy in GCC countries. With energy such a vital
resource in the region, energy productivity provides
a natural measure of how well an economy is doing
at utilizing the energy it consumes, focusing on
gross domestic product (GDP) growth, economic
diversification, innovation and energy efficiency.
It thus captures a significant part of the economic
reform agenda in the GCC.
T
he first decade of the 21st century was a time
of unprecedented economic growth. The world
got richer, and the countries that make up the
GCC raced ahead off the back of a commodities
super-cycle and booming government revenues.
With the financial crisis of 2008 came the fall. Today,
with China slowing, low energy prices and weak
economic demand, governments around the world
are confronting the reality that the growth models
of the past were built on shaky, and in many cases,
debt laden foundations.
Of the three main growth tools available to
policymakers – monetary policy, fiscal policy and
structural reform – cash-strapped governments have
Figure 1. Energy productivity in the GCC compared with selected advanced economies.
Source: KAPSARC analysis based on IEA and Enerdata.
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5Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
At the macroeconomic level, energy productivity
describes how much value (generally measured in
GDP) can be produced using an amount of energy
(generally measured in tons of oil equivalent (toe).
It is thus a reflection of both what activities are
undertaken in the economy (degree of structural
diversification) as well as how energy is used
(energy efficiency). It thus goes beyond energy
efficiency to focus on the optimization of energy use
in generating income and economic value.
A simple comparison of energy productivity in the
GCC with a selection of advanced economies
shows several important trends and features. First,
over recent decades the energy productivity of
advanced economies has improved, whereas in the
GCC it has been on a falling trend, except in Bahrain
and Qatar where it has risen. In 1980 energy
productivity was high in the GCC, reflecting the high
level of GDP (consistent with the strong oil revenues
of the era) and low domestic energy consumption
reflecting the relatively immature stage of economic
development at the time.
Following the collapse in oil prices of the 1980s,
government revenue and GDP fell, bringing down
energy productivity from these high levels. In the
1990s, the region slowly recovered through a
program of economic development, which sought
to improve its resilience to swings in the oil market
through economic diversification. In the first part
of this century, the resurgence in oil prices and
government revenue allowed for ambitious spending
programs and brought great advancements in
infrastructure and human development.
Following the recent volatility in oil prices,
concerns have once again resurfaced about
the region's over reliance on oil and gas for its
economic development. Diversification and energy
efficiency policies have assumed a new urgency,
as governments carefully evaluate the fiscal
sustainability of existing growth models.
The evidence from an international Kuznets curve
analysis conducted for this paper suggests that
greater economic value and per capita income is
possible along a high-energy productivity growth
pathway. While many advanced economies show
strong evidence of having successfully decoupled
economic growth from energy consumption along
a high-energy productivity pathway, GCC countries
exhibit this trait only weakly, if at all.
This paper argues that setting national energy
productivity targets would offer a powerful political
narrative to amplify and extend existing efforts in the
policy arenas of economic diversification, energy
efficiency and innovation. Setting targets would also
provide greater transparency around monitoring
and evaluating progress against such goals.
National targets can also be used as a coordinating
instrument for institutions with shared goals.
A focus on energy productivity could also strengthen
GCC engagement with various international
processes. For example, a focused strategy on
energy productivity could constitute a regionally
appropriate direction for ‘‘Green Growth’’ and
‘‘Green Investment.’’ It would also align naturally
with goals in GCC countries Intended Nationally
Determined Contributions under the Paris Accord on
climate change, as well as initiatives within the G-20
Energy Working Group process.
 
Summary
6Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
Energy Productivity as a New Growth
Model for the GCC
O
ver the last 40 years, the dominant
economic model in GCC countries was
to rely on the region’s great endowment
of oil and gas resources. A low cost of production
has provided an abundant and cheap source of
energy to fuel the domestic economy. Oil and gas
production is also the main source of export and
fiscal revenues for GCC countries. These revenues
have facilitated government-led growth strategies
making the GCC one of the fastest growing regions
in the world.
Development strategies centered on ambitious
public investments in infrastructure and real estate,
as well as on education and health. Income from the
region’s oil wealth was distributed to citizens through
many channels including very low domestic energy
prices for electricity, transport fuel and feedstock
to industry, through an expansion of public sector
employment and direct transfers. Any leftovers were
invested in either Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs)
or held by central banks.
This strategy has been successful in transferring
nations’ wealth from natural capital (oil under the
ground) into human (increasing levels of education),
physical (infrastructure) and financial (money in
the bank) capital. Unambiguously, oil has been a
great blessing for the region and the welfare of its
citizens has risen considerably from its development
and use. For example, the region has exhibited
substantial improvements in per capita income
as well as improved measures for the prevention
of infant mortality, education and life expectancy
among other indicators of human progress.
However, the recent collapse in oil prices has
exposed long-held concerns with this growth
model. Much of the recent expansion in GDP was
driven by high oil prices and the boost this gave to
government revenues. The underlying structural
concern has been weak or declining productivity
growth in the economy, with only Saudi Arabia
experiencing slightly positive total factor productivity
(TFP) growth in the non-oil sector (IMF, 2014a).
Memories were triggered of the long decline in per
capita incomes associated with the collapse in oil
prices in the 1980s (Figure 2). During this period,
declining fiscal spending and increasing public debt
contributed to per capita income falling on average
by more than 30 percent from its early 1980s peak,
returning only to this level in the late 2000s as oil
prices recovered
Now in the face of falling government revenues,
attention is again shifting to productivity as the main
strategy to achieve sustainable higher incomes for
GCC citizens for the long term. With energy playing
such an important role in the economy, it is only
natural that energy productivity assumes a key part
of this general focus on economic productivity.
Indeed, since 2013 there have been significant
policy moves to look ‘‘beyond barrels’’ for a source
of growth and to decouple energy consumption from
per capita income growth.
For example, in a landmark speech on this issue at
the 2015 UAE Government Summit, His Highness
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed of the United Arab
Emirates posed the question: ‘‘In 50 years when
we might have the last barrel of oil, the question is:
when it is shipped abroad, will we be sad? If we are
investing today in the right sectors, I can tell you, we
will celebrate that moment.’’
To take another example from the region’s largest
economy, Saudi Arabia, plans are under discussion
to bring energy intensity (the inverse of energy
productivity) in line with G7 nations by 2020.
7Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
As part of this, the aspiration is to make energy
efficiency savings that are equivalent to 37GW of
new capacity by 2032 (BMI Research 2016).
Such visions of the future are also reflected in
Saudi Arabia’s Intended Nationally Determined
Contribution made at the 21st Conference of the
Parties to the UNFCCC in Paris in December 2015.
In this, two visions for the future of economic growth
are given:
An economic growth model involving
accelerated industrialization to energy intensive
sectors such as petrochemicals, steel,
aluminum and cement based on Saudi Arabia’s
competitive advantage in low cost energy. This
would see a rising share of domestic energy
consumption in total energy production and
declining oil exports.
A growth model that sees substantial
diversification into non-energy related sectors
such as financial services, medical services,
tourism, education, renewable energy and energy
efficiency to drive economic growth. This model
has the Kingdom continuing to export significant
amounts of oil, with export revenues channeled
into these high value-added sectors.
These two visions of growth clearly exemplify the
energy productivity choice that policymakers in
the region confront. On the one hand, exploiting
the region's substantial comparative advantage
from access to low cost energy resources and the
movement up the value-chain into higher value-
added, albeit energy intensive industry; and on
the other hand, moving toward a stronger form of
diversification into lower energy intensive service
sectors and renewable energy.
Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC
Figure 2. Energy Productivity and Real Per Capita GDP Index 1971-2014 – GCC Countries.
Source: IEA, Enerdata, UNSTAT (TPES = Total Primary Energy Consumption, TFEC = Total Final Energy Consumption,
GDP = 2005USDPPP).
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8Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
In the former, oil production is diverted to domestic
consumption; and in the later, government
revenues from oil production are maintained. The
assumption in the INDC is that growth from the
latter strategy will be higher than by following an
energy intensive development path. This issue
was explored by KAPSARC, and is supported by
findings from the development and application of
an overlapping generations general equilibrium
model of the economy in the context of increased
domestic energy efficiency at the macroeconomic
level (Gonand, in progress). This work highlights the
contribution that raising energy efficiency can play in
avoiding domestic energy consumption, thus lifting
the amount of oil available for export, for alternative
domestic uses, or to be kept in the ground for future
use. If sold internationally, this extra oil can earn the
government significant extra revenues and be used
to support investment and economic growth.
In Figure 3, we show a selection of advanced
economies including Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K. and U.S. as a useful
counterpoint to evaluate the type of growth
experienced in the GCC and illustrated in Figure 2.
For advanced economies, in almost all years, per
capita incomes and energy productivity are rising
at almost the same rate. This compares with the
relationship in the GCC where GDP per capita rises
Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC
Figure 3. Energy Productivity and Real Per Capita GDP Index 1971-2014 – Selected Advanced Countries.
Source: IEA, Enerdata, UNSTAT (TPES = Total Primary Energy Consumption, TFEC = Total Final Energy Consumption,
GDP = 2005USDPPP).
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9Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
independently of energy productivity, suggesting
growth is being achieved, but at an expensive rate in
terms of energy.
In the later years, the effect of the 2008 economic
crisis is clearly visible on per capita income. This
shows that, while briefly slowed, the upward trend in
energy productivity has continued, while per capita
GDP growth has taken longer to recover to 2008
levels.
KAPSARC analysis has explored these trends in
greater depth through an empirical assessment of
the theory of energy productivity Kuznets curves
(Figure 4).
The hypothesis is that at early stages of economic
development, energy productivity may be very high
reflecting the fact that while the economy may be
small, energy consumption is also very low due to
low levels of income and industrialization.
As the economy grows, per capita energy
consumption increases along with the installation of
new infrastructure and industrialization. This is an
energy intensive process and our theory suggests
that we should expect energy productivity to decline
during this period.
As the economy matures and diversifies, moving
up the value chain of production into a wider range
Figure 4. Energy productivity Kuznets curve.
Source: KAPSARC.
Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC
EnergyProductivity
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Energy and GDP
decoupled
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Energy productivity growth paradigm
10Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
of sectors including advanced manufacturing and
services, we expect the level of energy consumption
per unit of GDP to start to decline as per capita
incomes go up and energy productivity enters a
phase where it rises with per capita incomes.
Policy is also an important driver of this hypothetical
Kuznets curve behavior. As incomes rise, we
can expect the quality of economic governance
to improve as a wider range of social services
are demanded by citizens. These could include
education, health and environmental considerations.
Such concerns are also likely to lead to stronger
policies around energy efficiency, which boost
energy productivity as well as a range of other
socio-economic indicators of progress.
Empirically, higher GDP per capita and lower
economic volatility have been shown to be strongly
and positively associated with diversification of
output and exports in low and middle income
countries (Papageorgiou and Spatafora 2012).
Diversification in output and exports make up
the structural transformation of the economy in
a dynamic reallocation of resources from less
productive to more productive sectors and activities
(IMF 2014).
Typically, this transformation first involves a
reallocation from agriculture and natural resources
toward higher value-added manufacturing. The
latter has more potential for improvements in
productivity and the upgrading of quality, which
drives the increasing value of output. As countries
become wealthier and reach advanced economy
status their level of diversification may also decline
as they become specialized in high value-added
products and services (Cadot, Carrere and Strass-
Kahn 2011). Thus the contribution of diversification
to rising energy productivity may have a limit and
can be seen to evolve along with the increasing
sophistication of the economy.
Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC
Exports are also often seen as a key channel for
achieving productivity improvements by helping
drive producers up the value chain and into new,
more efficient, technologies and the application of
knowledge in order to compete in global markets
(Lall 2000, Santos-Paullino 2010). This suggests
that energy productivity strategies should also
be outward looking, building on key competitive
advantages to foster a robust export sector.
KAPSARC research has empirically tested the
energy productivity Kuznets curve hypothesis
through an international comparison of GCC and
selected advanced countries (Galeotti, Howarth
and Lanza, in progress). The estimated energy
productivity Kuznets curves from this work are
shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7. The group of advanced
economies show strong evidence of having
successfully decoupled economic growth from
energy consumption (increasing energy productivity)
– even as per capita incomes rose. GCC countries,
by contrast, exhibit this trait only weakly, if at all.
This result implies that while the advanced group of
countries have achieved a high-energy productivity
growth path, this is yet to emerge in GCC countries.
This analysis also shows the heterogeneity between
countries, with Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE the
leaders in terms of stabilizing energy productivity at
higher levels of GDP per capita relative to Kuwait,
Qatar and Bahrain.
It is important to compare these results with
Figure 1, which shows the direction of recent
change as well as the general level based on
historical data. For Oman, the trend has been a
movement from high-energy productivity toward
lower energy productivity growth as they move
strongly into energy intensive industry, whereas
in the UAE and Saudi Arabia the recent trend has
been toward higher energy productivity.
11Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC
Figure 5. Energy productivity Kuznets curve for GCC and G7+ countries.
Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress.
Figure 6. Energy productivity Kuznets curve for individual GCC countries (TPES).
Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress.
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Energy productivity as a new growth model for the GCC
Within the advanced group of countries the leaders
are Italy, Japan, U.K., France, Germany and
Australia, while U.S. and Canada exhibit a lower
energy productivity growth path.
It is interesting to note that both the U.S. and
Australia have set national energy productivity goals:
U.S. has an objective to double energy
productivity by 2030 relative to 2010.
Australia has a target to increase energy
productivity by 40 percent relative to 2015.
This difference in target can be understood through
the relative position of the Kuznets curves for
each country. Those countries on a lower energy
productivity growth trajectory are likely to find it
easier to improve than those on a higher trajectory.
This is because there is more scope to make energy
productivity boosting structural changes, or make
large efficiency improvements through the adoption
of new technologies. They are further from the
“efficiency frontier.”
By applying a similar logic we argue that there
is greater scope within the GCC to improve the
trajectory of economic growth per capita and
energy productivity through the setting of nationally
appropriate energy productivity targets.
Of course, national energy productivity targets
must be complemented by a suite of policies
and economic reforms at the national, sector
and sub-sector level. The development of such
a strategy has been identified as a priority by the
United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the King
Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
(KAPSARC). Indeed, this paper forms part of a
wider project aimed at developing detailed sectoral
tool kits for such a strategy.
Figure 7. Energy productivity Kuznets individual curves for G7+ countries (TPES).
Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress.
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13Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
Beyond the Gulf’s Domestic Energy
Demand Paradox
T
he conclusion we may take from this
analysis is that a transition to higher energy
productivity is possible in the GCC but, based
on historical data, we do not yet see the emergence
of such a transition.
Here we must draw attention to the fact that in
recent years oil prices have fallen from well over
$100 per barrel and all GCC countries have
brought in significant new policies involving energy
efficiency, reforms to domestic retail energy and
water prices, renewable and nuclear energy
investment and policies on green growth.
While this new wave of policy reforms will no doubt
help increase the energy efficiency of the economy
and move incentives away from energy intensive
development toward other sectors of growth, the
collapse in oil price means it cannot be taken for
granted that energy productivity will increase as a
result of these shifts.
GDP and per capita income in the GCC are still
linked to oil prices. Even though energy efficiency
and diversification policies are putting upward
pressure on energy productivity because GDP
growth is weakened by lower government revenues,
there will also be downward pressure on energy
productivity.
What is different between current low energy prices
compared with the 1980s is that instead of defending
oil prices and reducing output, OPEC has opted to
defend market share by maintaining and increasing
output to push out higher cost producers. If this
approach results in a smaller fall in government
revenue then authorities will be in a much better
position to maintain government spending. This may
cushion the effect on per capita incomes relative to
what was experienced in the 1980s.
That energy productivity has remained stable
over the last two-and-a-half decades while per
capita incomes rose, suggests that growth and
improvements in living standards have been
achieved at an expensive cost in terms of domestic
energy utilization.
A potentially dangerous energy paradox exists within
the low-energy productivity growth paradigm. Within
this paradigm, increasing living standards have
been reliant on government-led public spending
and energy intensive industrial development.
However, the continued rapid expansion of such
developments is also cutting into the share of
domestic energy production available for exports,
and therefore the original source of government
revenue used to drive growth.
The evolution to a higher energy productivity growth
paradigm would address this paradox by decoupling
economic growth from higher domestic energy
consumption on one hand, and by increasing the
sustainability of government finances on the other.
Evolving to a new energy productivity growth
paradigm in the GCC offers a compelling, and
perhaps imperative, case for policymakers to
meet their domestic energy and economic goals
by generating private sector jobs, supporting the
competitiveness of existing industries, as well as
encouraging new sectors to develop.
Building a coherent and strategic energy productivity
strategy will require bold vision and leadership. It
will require adaptive, forward looking policies that
can capture the synergies among the respective
economic sectors, while building on but not being
beholden to the region’s dominant competitive
advantage in low-cost energy.
14Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
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About the Project
Increasing energy productivity holds some of the greatest possibilities for enhancing the
welfare countries get out of their energy systems. It also recasts energy efficiency in
terms of boosting competitiveness and wealth, more powerfully conveying its profound
benefits to society.
KAPSARC and UNESCWA have initiated this project to explore the energy productivity
potential of the Arab region, starting with the six GCC countries.
Aimed at policymakers, the project aims to highlight the social gains from energy
productivity investments, where countries are currently at, and articulate options for
achieving improved performance in this area.
About the Authors
Nicholas Howarth
Nicholas is an applied economist with 20 years of experience
working with governments, industry and in academia. A research
fellow at KAPSARC he coordinates the center's work on energy
productivity in cooperation with UNESCWA.
Kankana Dubey
Kankana is a senior research associate at KAPSARC working
on energy productivity in the GCC. Her work focuses on energy
efficiency and developing policy tool kits for government action.
Marzio Galeotti
Marzio is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC. He is professor of
environmental and energy economics at the Università degli Studi di
Milano, and a research fellow at IEFE, Università Bocconi, Milan.
Alessandro Lanza
Alessandro is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC. He is Professor
of Energy and Environmental Policy at LUISS University, Rome
and a member of the Board of Directors of ENEA, Italy.
16Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries
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KS-1646-DP041A-Energy-Productivity-as-a-New-Growth-Model-for-GCC-Countries

  • 1. 1Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Kankana Dubey, Marzio Galeotti, Nicholas Howarth and Alessandro Lanza October 2016 KS-1645-DP039A
  • 2. 2Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries About KAPSARC Legal Notice The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is a non-profit global institution dedicated to independent research into energy economics, policy, technology, and the environment across all types of energy. KAPSARC’s mandate is to advance the understanding of energy challenges and opportunities facing the world today and tomorrow, through unbiased, independent, and high-caliber research for the benefit of society. KAPSARC is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. © Copyright 2016 King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). No portion of this document may be reproduced or utilized without the proper attribution to KAPSARC. Acknowledgement This paper has been prepared as part of the joint KAPSARC-UNESCWA project ‘Energy Productivity in the GCC’ and we would like to thank our UNESCWA Colleagues for much helpful input and advice. it is a paper which will be used as input to a joint report on improving energy productivity in the GCC region.
  • 3. 3Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries F ollowing the collapse in oil prices, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have intensified efforts to find a new growth model which increases the welfare of their citizens, while reducing exposure to volatile energy markets. This paper argues that placing energy productivity at the heart of such a new growth paradigm offers a compelling path forward to strengthen economic diversification, energy efficiency and innovation efforts. Key findings of this paper include: Setting national energy productivity targets would provide a powerful signal on the future direction of government policies and increase transparency to monitor and evaluate progress. Clear, shared goals can also act as a helpful coordinating instrument between different stakeholders. Evidence suggests that greater economic value and per capita income is possible along a high-energy productivity growth pathway. Higher energy productivity can help address the Gulf’s “energy paradox” of the current growth model driving higher energy consumption as a proportion of energy production, while relying on energy export revenues for public investment and spending to support growth. Many advanced economies show strong evidence of having successfully decoupled economic growth from energy consumption along a high-energy productivity pathway. GCC countries exhibit this trait only weakly, if at all. Setting energy productivity goals could constitute a regionally appropriate form of ‘‘green growth’’ and also strengthen GCC engagement with various international processes such as the UNFCCC and G-20 initiatives on energy and the environment. Key Points
  • 4. 4Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Summary over relied on their central banks. While productivity has long been recognized as the foundation of economic growth, we have heard a lot less about the structural reform needed to drive it than perhaps we should. This paper makes the case for placing energy productivity at the center of economic development strategy in GCC countries. With energy such a vital resource in the region, energy productivity provides a natural measure of how well an economy is doing at utilizing the energy it consumes, focusing on gross domestic product (GDP) growth, economic diversification, innovation and energy efficiency. It thus captures a significant part of the economic reform agenda in the GCC. T he first decade of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented economic growth. The world got richer, and the countries that make up the GCC raced ahead off the back of a commodities super-cycle and booming government revenues. With the financial crisis of 2008 came the fall. Today, with China slowing, low energy prices and weak economic demand, governments around the world are confronting the reality that the growth models of the past were built on shaky, and in many cases, debt laden foundations. Of the three main growth tools available to policymakers – monetary policy, fiscal policy and structural reform – cash-strapped governments have Figure 1. Energy productivity in the GCC compared with selected advanced economies. Source: KAPSARC analysis based on IEA and Enerdata. 0 5 10 15 20 25 Australia Canada France Germany Italy Japan UK US Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar KSA UAE G7 GCC 1980 1990 2000 2014 EnergyProductivity(GDPPPP2005USD/TPESmtoe)
  • 5. 5Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries At the macroeconomic level, energy productivity describes how much value (generally measured in GDP) can be produced using an amount of energy (generally measured in tons of oil equivalent (toe). It is thus a reflection of both what activities are undertaken in the economy (degree of structural diversification) as well as how energy is used (energy efficiency). It thus goes beyond energy efficiency to focus on the optimization of energy use in generating income and economic value. A simple comparison of energy productivity in the GCC with a selection of advanced economies shows several important trends and features. First, over recent decades the energy productivity of advanced economies has improved, whereas in the GCC it has been on a falling trend, except in Bahrain and Qatar where it has risen. In 1980 energy productivity was high in the GCC, reflecting the high level of GDP (consistent with the strong oil revenues of the era) and low domestic energy consumption reflecting the relatively immature stage of economic development at the time. Following the collapse in oil prices of the 1980s, government revenue and GDP fell, bringing down energy productivity from these high levels. In the 1990s, the region slowly recovered through a program of economic development, which sought to improve its resilience to swings in the oil market through economic diversification. In the first part of this century, the resurgence in oil prices and government revenue allowed for ambitious spending programs and brought great advancements in infrastructure and human development. Following the recent volatility in oil prices, concerns have once again resurfaced about the region's over reliance on oil and gas for its economic development. Diversification and energy efficiency policies have assumed a new urgency, as governments carefully evaluate the fiscal sustainability of existing growth models. The evidence from an international Kuznets curve analysis conducted for this paper suggests that greater economic value and per capita income is possible along a high-energy productivity growth pathway. While many advanced economies show strong evidence of having successfully decoupled economic growth from energy consumption along a high-energy productivity pathway, GCC countries exhibit this trait only weakly, if at all. This paper argues that setting national energy productivity targets would offer a powerful political narrative to amplify and extend existing efforts in the policy arenas of economic diversification, energy efficiency and innovation. Setting targets would also provide greater transparency around monitoring and evaluating progress against such goals. National targets can also be used as a coordinating instrument for institutions with shared goals. A focus on energy productivity could also strengthen GCC engagement with various international processes. For example, a focused strategy on energy productivity could constitute a regionally appropriate direction for ‘‘Green Growth’’ and ‘‘Green Investment.’’ It would also align naturally with goals in GCC countries Intended Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Accord on climate change, as well as initiatives within the G-20 Energy Working Group process.   Summary
  • 6. 6Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC O ver the last 40 years, the dominant economic model in GCC countries was to rely on the region’s great endowment of oil and gas resources. A low cost of production has provided an abundant and cheap source of energy to fuel the domestic economy. Oil and gas production is also the main source of export and fiscal revenues for GCC countries. These revenues have facilitated government-led growth strategies making the GCC one of the fastest growing regions in the world. Development strategies centered on ambitious public investments in infrastructure and real estate, as well as on education and health. Income from the region’s oil wealth was distributed to citizens through many channels including very low domestic energy prices for electricity, transport fuel and feedstock to industry, through an expansion of public sector employment and direct transfers. Any leftovers were invested in either Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) or held by central banks. This strategy has been successful in transferring nations’ wealth from natural capital (oil under the ground) into human (increasing levels of education), physical (infrastructure) and financial (money in the bank) capital. Unambiguously, oil has been a great blessing for the region and the welfare of its citizens has risen considerably from its development and use. For example, the region has exhibited substantial improvements in per capita income as well as improved measures for the prevention of infant mortality, education and life expectancy among other indicators of human progress. However, the recent collapse in oil prices has exposed long-held concerns with this growth model. Much of the recent expansion in GDP was driven by high oil prices and the boost this gave to government revenues. The underlying structural concern has been weak or declining productivity growth in the economy, with only Saudi Arabia experiencing slightly positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the non-oil sector (IMF, 2014a). Memories were triggered of the long decline in per capita incomes associated with the collapse in oil prices in the 1980s (Figure 2). During this period, declining fiscal spending and increasing public debt contributed to per capita income falling on average by more than 30 percent from its early 1980s peak, returning only to this level in the late 2000s as oil prices recovered Now in the face of falling government revenues, attention is again shifting to productivity as the main strategy to achieve sustainable higher incomes for GCC citizens for the long term. With energy playing such an important role in the economy, it is only natural that energy productivity assumes a key part of this general focus on economic productivity. Indeed, since 2013 there have been significant policy moves to look ‘‘beyond barrels’’ for a source of growth and to decouple energy consumption from per capita income growth. For example, in a landmark speech on this issue at the 2015 UAE Government Summit, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates posed the question: ‘‘In 50 years when we might have the last barrel of oil, the question is: when it is shipped abroad, will we be sad? If we are investing today in the right sectors, I can tell you, we will celebrate that moment.’’ To take another example from the region’s largest economy, Saudi Arabia, plans are under discussion to bring energy intensity (the inverse of energy productivity) in line with G7 nations by 2020.
  • 7. 7Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries As part of this, the aspiration is to make energy efficiency savings that are equivalent to 37GW of new capacity by 2032 (BMI Research 2016). Such visions of the future are also reflected in Saudi Arabia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution made at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Paris in December 2015. In this, two visions for the future of economic growth are given: An economic growth model involving accelerated industrialization to energy intensive sectors such as petrochemicals, steel, aluminum and cement based on Saudi Arabia’s competitive advantage in low cost energy. This would see a rising share of domestic energy consumption in total energy production and declining oil exports. A growth model that sees substantial diversification into non-energy related sectors such as financial services, medical services, tourism, education, renewable energy and energy efficiency to drive economic growth. This model has the Kingdom continuing to export significant amounts of oil, with export revenues channeled into these high value-added sectors. These two visions of growth clearly exemplify the energy productivity choice that policymakers in the region confront. On the one hand, exploiting the region's substantial comparative advantage from access to low cost energy resources and the movement up the value-chain into higher value- added, albeit energy intensive industry; and on the other hand, moving toward a stronger form of diversification into lower energy intensive service sectors and renewable energy. Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC Figure 2. Energy Productivity and Real Per Capita GDP Index 1971-2014 – GCC Countries. Source: IEA, Enerdata, UNSTAT (TPES = Total Primary Energy Consumption, TFEC = Total Final Energy Consumption, GDP = 2005USDPPP). 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 (1971=100)RealOilPrice EnergyProductivity,RealGDPpercapita (1971-100) GDP/TPES GDP/TFEC GDP per capita Oil prices (real)
  • 8. 8Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries In the former, oil production is diverted to domestic consumption; and in the later, government revenues from oil production are maintained. The assumption in the INDC is that growth from the latter strategy will be higher than by following an energy intensive development path. This issue was explored by KAPSARC, and is supported by findings from the development and application of an overlapping generations general equilibrium model of the economy in the context of increased domestic energy efficiency at the macroeconomic level (Gonand, in progress). This work highlights the contribution that raising energy efficiency can play in avoiding domestic energy consumption, thus lifting the amount of oil available for export, for alternative domestic uses, or to be kept in the ground for future use. If sold internationally, this extra oil can earn the government significant extra revenues and be used to support investment and economic growth. In Figure 3, we show a selection of advanced economies including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, U.K. and U.S. as a useful counterpoint to evaluate the type of growth experienced in the GCC and illustrated in Figure 2. For advanced economies, in almost all years, per capita incomes and energy productivity are rising at almost the same rate. This compares with the relationship in the GCC where GDP per capita rises Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC Figure 3. Energy Productivity and Real Per Capita GDP Index 1971-2014 – Selected Advanced Countries. Source: IEA, Enerdata, UNSTAT (TPES = Total Primary Energy Consumption, TFEC = Total Final Energy Consumption, GDP = 2005USDPPP). 50 100 150 200 250 300 EnergyproductivityandGDPpercapita(Index 1971=100) GDP/TPES GDP/TFEC GDP per capita
  • 9. 9Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries independently of energy productivity, suggesting growth is being achieved, but at an expensive rate in terms of energy. In the later years, the effect of the 2008 economic crisis is clearly visible on per capita income. This shows that, while briefly slowed, the upward trend in energy productivity has continued, while per capita GDP growth has taken longer to recover to 2008 levels. KAPSARC analysis has explored these trends in greater depth through an empirical assessment of the theory of energy productivity Kuznets curves (Figure 4). The hypothesis is that at early stages of economic development, energy productivity may be very high reflecting the fact that while the economy may be small, energy consumption is also very low due to low levels of income and industrialization. As the economy grows, per capita energy consumption increases along with the installation of new infrastructure and industrialization. This is an energy intensive process and our theory suggests that we should expect energy productivity to decline during this period. As the economy matures and diversifies, moving up the value chain of production into a wider range Figure 4. Energy productivity Kuznets curve. Source: KAPSARC. Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC EnergyProductivity GDP per capita Turning point Absolute delinking Energy and GDP decoupled Energy intensive growth phase Energy productivity growth paradigm
  • 10. 10Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries of sectors including advanced manufacturing and services, we expect the level of energy consumption per unit of GDP to start to decline as per capita incomes go up and energy productivity enters a phase where it rises with per capita incomes. Policy is also an important driver of this hypothetical Kuznets curve behavior. As incomes rise, we can expect the quality of economic governance to improve as a wider range of social services are demanded by citizens. These could include education, health and environmental considerations. Such concerns are also likely to lead to stronger policies around energy efficiency, which boost energy productivity as well as a range of other socio-economic indicators of progress. Empirically, higher GDP per capita and lower economic volatility have been shown to be strongly and positively associated with diversification of output and exports in low and middle income countries (Papageorgiou and Spatafora 2012). Diversification in output and exports make up the structural transformation of the economy in a dynamic reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive sectors and activities (IMF 2014). Typically, this transformation first involves a reallocation from agriculture and natural resources toward higher value-added manufacturing. The latter has more potential for improvements in productivity and the upgrading of quality, which drives the increasing value of output. As countries become wealthier and reach advanced economy status their level of diversification may also decline as they become specialized in high value-added products and services (Cadot, Carrere and Strass- Kahn 2011). Thus the contribution of diversification to rising energy productivity may have a limit and can be seen to evolve along with the increasing sophistication of the economy. Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC Exports are also often seen as a key channel for achieving productivity improvements by helping drive producers up the value chain and into new, more efficient, technologies and the application of knowledge in order to compete in global markets (Lall 2000, Santos-Paullino 2010). This suggests that energy productivity strategies should also be outward looking, building on key competitive advantages to foster a robust export sector. KAPSARC research has empirically tested the energy productivity Kuznets curve hypothesis through an international comparison of GCC and selected advanced countries (Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress). The estimated energy productivity Kuznets curves from this work are shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7. The group of advanced economies show strong evidence of having successfully decoupled economic growth from energy consumption (increasing energy productivity) – even as per capita incomes rose. GCC countries, by contrast, exhibit this trait only weakly, if at all. This result implies that while the advanced group of countries have achieved a high-energy productivity growth path, this is yet to emerge in GCC countries. This analysis also shows the heterogeneity between countries, with Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE the leaders in terms of stabilizing energy productivity at higher levels of GDP per capita relative to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. It is important to compare these results with Figure 1, which shows the direction of recent change as well as the general level based on historical data. For Oman, the trend has been a movement from high-energy productivity toward lower energy productivity growth as they move strongly into energy intensive industry, whereas in the UAE and Saudi Arabia the recent trend has been toward higher energy productivity.
  • 11. 11Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for the GCC Figure 5. Energy productivity Kuznets curve for GCC and G7+ countries. Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress. Figure 6. Energy productivity Kuznets curve for individual GCC countries (TPES). Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress. 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 EnergyProductivity('0002005PPP/toe,TPES) Per capita GDP ('000 2005GDP PPP) UAE Oman Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia Bahrain Energy productivity at the (weak) per capita income turning point (TPES) Australia Canada France Germany Italy Japan UK USABahrain Kuwait Oman QatarKSA UAE Data  point  for  2014(Advanced  economies) 0 120 GDP per capita ('0000) 20 40 60 80 100 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 EnergyProductivity(GDP'000/TPES) (Advanced economies) Data point 2014GCC G7+
  • 12. 12Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Energy productivity as a new growth model for the GCC Within the advanced group of countries the leaders are Italy, Japan, U.K., France, Germany and Australia, while U.S. and Canada exhibit a lower energy productivity growth path. It is interesting to note that both the U.S. and Australia have set national energy productivity goals: U.S. has an objective to double energy productivity by 2030 relative to 2010. Australia has a target to increase energy productivity by 40 percent relative to 2015. This difference in target can be understood through the relative position of the Kuznets curves for each country. Those countries on a lower energy productivity growth trajectory are likely to find it easier to improve than those on a higher trajectory. This is because there is more scope to make energy productivity boosting structural changes, or make large efficiency improvements through the adoption of new technologies. They are further from the “efficiency frontier.” By applying a similar logic we argue that there is greater scope within the GCC to improve the trajectory of economic growth per capita and energy productivity through the setting of nationally appropriate energy productivity targets. Of course, national energy productivity targets must be complemented by a suite of policies and economic reforms at the national, sector and sub-sector level. The development of such a strategy has been identified as a priority by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). Indeed, this paper forms part of a wider project aimed at developing detailed sectoral tool kits for such a strategy. Figure 7. Energy productivity Kuznets individual curves for G7+ countries (TPES). Source: Galeotti, Howarth and Lanza, in progress. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Energyproductivity(GDP'0002005PPP/TFEC) Per capita GDP ('000 PPP2005) France Italy Germany Japan UK Canada Australia USA Energy productivity at the (relatively strong) per capita income turning point
  • 13. 13Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries Beyond the Gulf’s Domestic Energy Demand Paradox T he conclusion we may take from this analysis is that a transition to higher energy productivity is possible in the GCC but, based on historical data, we do not yet see the emergence of such a transition. Here we must draw attention to the fact that in recent years oil prices have fallen from well over $100 per barrel and all GCC countries have brought in significant new policies involving energy efficiency, reforms to domestic retail energy and water prices, renewable and nuclear energy investment and policies on green growth. While this new wave of policy reforms will no doubt help increase the energy efficiency of the economy and move incentives away from energy intensive development toward other sectors of growth, the collapse in oil price means it cannot be taken for granted that energy productivity will increase as a result of these shifts. GDP and per capita income in the GCC are still linked to oil prices. Even though energy efficiency and diversification policies are putting upward pressure on energy productivity because GDP growth is weakened by lower government revenues, there will also be downward pressure on energy productivity. What is different between current low energy prices compared with the 1980s is that instead of defending oil prices and reducing output, OPEC has opted to defend market share by maintaining and increasing output to push out higher cost producers. If this approach results in a smaller fall in government revenue then authorities will be in a much better position to maintain government spending. This may cushion the effect on per capita incomes relative to what was experienced in the 1980s. That energy productivity has remained stable over the last two-and-a-half decades while per capita incomes rose, suggests that growth and improvements in living standards have been achieved at an expensive cost in terms of domestic energy utilization. A potentially dangerous energy paradox exists within the low-energy productivity growth paradigm. Within this paradigm, increasing living standards have been reliant on government-led public spending and energy intensive industrial development. However, the continued rapid expansion of such developments is also cutting into the share of domestic energy production available for exports, and therefore the original source of government revenue used to drive growth. The evolution to a higher energy productivity growth paradigm would address this paradox by decoupling economic growth from higher domestic energy consumption on one hand, and by increasing the sustainability of government finances on the other. Evolving to a new energy productivity growth paradigm in the GCC offers a compelling, and perhaps imperative, case for policymakers to meet their domestic energy and economic goals by generating private sector jobs, supporting the competitiveness of existing industries, as well as encouraging new sectors to develop. Building a coherent and strategic energy productivity strategy will require bold vision and leadership. It will require adaptive, forward looking policies that can capture the synergies among the respective economic sectors, while building on but not being beholden to the region’s dominant competitive advantage in low-cost energy.
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  • 15. 15Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries About the Project Increasing energy productivity holds some of the greatest possibilities for enhancing the welfare countries get out of their energy systems. It also recasts energy efficiency in terms of boosting competitiveness and wealth, more powerfully conveying its profound benefits to society. KAPSARC and UNESCWA have initiated this project to explore the energy productivity potential of the Arab region, starting with the six GCC countries. Aimed at policymakers, the project aims to highlight the social gains from energy productivity investments, where countries are currently at, and articulate options for achieving improved performance in this area. About the Authors Nicholas Howarth Nicholas is an applied economist with 20 years of experience working with governments, industry and in academia. A research fellow at KAPSARC he coordinates the center's work on energy productivity in cooperation with UNESCWA. Kankana Dubey Kankana is a senior research associate at KAPSARC working on energy productivity in the GCC. Her work focuses on energy efficiency and developing policy tool kits for government action. Marzio Galeotti Marzio is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC. He is professor of environmental and energy economics at the Università degli Studi di Milano, and a research fellow at IEFE, Università Bocconi, Milan. Alessandro Lanza Alessandro is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC. He is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at LUISS University, Rome and a member of the Board of Directors of ENEA, Italy.
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