Kuwait

  • Nov 5, 2014
  • 2 min read

Gulf economies can ride out lower oil prices

The sharp decline in oil prices is likely to see significant fiscal adjustment by Gulf energy exporters

Gulf states
  • Aug 22, 2014
  • 7 min read

Stability fears will stall subsidy reform in Gulf

Gulf states are warily watching anti-government protests in neighbouring Yemen this week, which...

Gulf states
  • Jul 30, 2014
  • 7 min read

Subsidy reforms will widen income gap in Gulf

Interest in poverty and equality in the Middle East and North Africa has typically focused on the...

Gulf states
  • Jul 1, 2014
  • 7 min read

Gulf states face blowback from Iraq's jihadist surge

Saudi King Abdallah denounced the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in a speech to mark the...

Gulf states
  • Jun 9, 2014
  • 6 min read

Gulf bloc faces new crisis of authority over Iran

Kuwait's Emir Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah made a landmark visit to Tehran on June 2-3. His visit...

Gulf states
  • May 14, 2014
  • 11 min read

Gulf drive to reduce unemployment faces obstacles

Omani businesses have voiced concerns that new restrictions on foreign workers will damage the...

Gulf states
  • Apr 15, 2014
  • 2 min read

Israel-Saudi ties will not advance despite incentives

Saudi Arabia today denied comments by Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, that it had...

Israel
  • Apr 11, 2014
  • 6 min read

Middle East exporters can ride out US shale oil boom

Over the last four decades, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has...

Middle East