Qatar 2050 : The Race to the Top!

We perform 360 review on the state of Qatar’s geopolitical and geoeconomics to analyze it strengths and weaknesses. Then, we provide recommendations to aid policy makers and the business community on the proper policies and investments needed to enhance the economic growth and development. The Qatar in 2020 is ranked top 30 around the world, and best ranking category is in ‘movers’ (top 8), while worst category is in adventure category (top 71). The main problems for Qatar are the political system and the constitution, social inclusion and pollution. Our main political recommendations are to separate the state from religion (Islamic sharia), and Democracy from civil liberties, thus, to rewrite the entire constitution with more bills of rights. Social recommendations are to enhance the role of women and support financial inclusion. The key economic policies to implement are modernizing the monetary system as to make the currency floating, not fixed; and lower the overall government debt that reached all time high relative to GDP. Finally, diversify the sources of energy production and consumption; and make a small labor tax so to lower the income inequality. Should these recommendations implemented, we project with high probabilities that Qatar will reach the top by 2050