[escenic_image id="5510767"] The New Silk Road Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan – each of these toponyms is better known to international investor community individually rather…

[escenic_image id="5510565"] BRICs as the Emerging (Decoupled) Leaders Prior to the global financial crisis, there was a virulent debate over the concept of decoupling, the idea that the performance…

[escenic_image id="5510019"] A Blessing or a Curse? Its well-known nickname is "black gold".  But Terry Lynn Karl said it can be "The Midas Touch" and the man who founded OPEC once called it "the…

[escenic_image id="5510075"] The Majalla: How would you characterize the scope and depth of economic recovery in Palestine? There has been a revival in the West Bank though not much of one in Gaza…

[escenic_image id="559620"]In a time where the dos and don’ts of financial markets are more widely discussed than football results, one issue has been curiously absent: Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)…

[escenic_image id="559397"]Two CEOS stand in an office examining a chart showing plunging world GDP. One turns to the other, and says, “We can only hope that it turns around before there’s time to…

[escenic_image id="558971"]Although the Gulf economies have weathered the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) relatively well, the same cannot be said about their financial centres. Stock markets in the…

[escenic_image id="558014"]Now that the global economy has apparently bottomed out, governments and private investors alike can shift away from emergency to forward-looking decisions that will better…

[escenic_image id="553694"]As Western nations again mull over whether to ratchet up sanctions on Iran, it helps to understand these punitive measures for what they are. Broadly speaking, sanctions…

[escenic_image id="555182"]By now it should be clear that the “de-coupling” of the global economy, far from the whimsy of radical salon economists, is an established fact. While the US and other…