Israel's war on Gaza has highlighted how much of the Arab world has lacked economic development – and real peace – since the Nakba (catastrophe) in…

Economic reform is a hot topic in the Arab world, amid wider global changes, not least the move away from fossil fuels creating a need for…

Ideas about independent development and self-sufficiency spread through the Arab world as colonial rule from Britain or France ended in the mid-20th…

In ancient times, Iraq was called ‘Mesopotamia’ – the land between the two rivers. This ancient land had a far more advanced and developed…

Lebanon and the Gulf have long shared political and economic ties – perhaps even predating the establishment of Greater Lebanon, more than a century…

Kuwait reported a budget surplus for the last fiscal year, buoyed by higher oil prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, easing the immediate…

While a global inflation crisis is slowly subsiding, its aftermath is affecting various countries differently.In the United States and several…

There are fundamental problems facing the global economy that add pressure on oil prices and limit their rise or at least stabilise them for a…

Every country in the world has external debt in one form or another and to varying degrees. Borrowing is a sound option for any nation, as long as…

Since the beginning of the oil era in Kuwait, the state’s political administration has made a conscious effort to improve living standards and…