This paper develops a Financial Conditions Index (FCI) for Qatar and uses the Growth-at-Risk (GaR) framework to examine the impact of financial conditions on Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon growth. The ...

Motivated by Qatar’s Third National Development Strategy, this note discusses ingredients for boosting export diversification and growth potential. Drawing on cross-country experiences and empirical ...

What does the recent announcement that state-owned companies will be managed by Egypt’s Sovereign Fund mean? Niveen Wahish ...

For more than two years, Lebanon has been paralysed. The previous president, Michel Aoun, left office in October 2022.

In other words, global debt now exceeds the world’s GDP by three times. During the same 10-year period, household debt rose ...

NITI Aayog VC Suman Bery emphasizes attracting MSMEs from other countries to drive India's competitiveness and achieve 7-8% ...

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) has argued that Mozambique needs a "fiscal consolidation" in 2025 to ensure the sustainability of public accounts, given the significant fiscal slippage seen in ...

Vehicles that have been granted permission to be imported into Sri Lanka must be registered within 90 days, the Ministry of ...

By Ebenezer NJOKU “The economy is at a crossroads.” This is no news! After repeated cycles of unsustainable debt accumulation ...

The southeast African nation has suffered economic damage in the wake of protests against elections in October that extended ...

Successive governments in the past have said the IMF had been demanding to reduce the size of the public sector. However, a top IMF official this week said the Sri Lanka government has the liberty to ...

Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday and more shipments were expected in the ...