The near-tripling of oil prices from their trough in January 2016, to nearly 80 US dollars per barrel in early October 2018, has spurred a recovery in the GCC economies, following three years of persistent weakness. Additional support has come from rising oil production, and a slower pace of...

"Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented influence on international affairs--the result of their almost unimaginable riches in oil and gas. In this book, Rory Miller, an expert in...

In seinem Vortrag stellt Bundeswirtschaftsminister Dr. Werner Müller die positive Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsdaten in Deutschland heraus. Er hebt die guten Konjunkturaussichten hervor, zählt die Leistungen der Regierung Schröder in der Wirtschaftpolitik auf und geht auf wichtige Reformen in...

Morocco stands out as a country that has seized the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis as an opportunity to launch an ambitious program of transformative reforms. After its initial efforts to mitigate the immediate effects of the pandemic on households and firms, the authorities have launched various...

"In The Turn of the Tortoise, T N Ninan explores the paradox of a 'premature superpower' (as Martin Wolf once described India in the Financial Times). India has grown from the 12th largest economy in 2008 to what IMF reckons is the 7th largest in 2015, even as its people are poorer than those in...