MENA直接或间接地受益于多年来国际油价的有利趋势 — — 特别是2002—2008年，油价涨至创出历史记录的每桶147美元 — — 也受益于新近进入上升期的商业周期。
MENA countries had benefited, directly or indirectly, from years of favorable international oil prices – especially from 2002 to 2008, when prices reached a historic peak of about $147 per barrel – and benefited from a recent upswing in the business cycle.