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Weak oil prices and political climate continued to dictate economic performance in the MENA region during the first quarter of 2016. Despite the slight year-to-date uptick in oil prices, oil exporting ... read more
To boost its private sector and ease the pressure on the fiscal balance caused by low oil prices, Qatar targets to implement a public-private partnership (PPP) law, by the end of 2016. Qatar has previously ... read more
Amid a continuing political stalemate, with around 21-month of political vacuum, most of Lebanon’s economic indicators recuperated from the low levels reached in the previous years. However, the ... read more
On the ground, Syrian government forces took back the historic city of Palmyra in March after it was seized by IS militants back in May 2015. On the diplomatic front, the Geneva peace talks were anything ... read more
At the onset of 2016, rivalry between the Sunni-kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Shiite-Iran was heated. In January 2016, Saudi Arabia executed 47 people accused of terrorism, amongst them was Sheikh Nimr ... read more
Perhaps one of the few positives witnessed in Jordan recently has been the lower number of Syrian refugees, with official numbers as of April 2016 placing the figure at around 640,000, compared to above ... read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) remained focused on its strategic goals in spite of the regional tensions. The government is trying to build a balance between its revenues and expenditures to offset the ... read more
Egypt inaugurated 2016 with a bunch of new economic decisions and international deals topped by the Central Bank of Egypt’s (CBE) new monetary measures. As a matter of fact, the lack of net foreign ... read more