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The Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), a coalition of Islamist and non-Islamist militias, took control of the two terminals during a March 3-4 offensive against the eastern-based…
A fiscal crunch exacerbated by the pandemic and associated oil-price crash has forced the authorities to step up long-term ‘Omanisation’ efforts, ultimately taking pressure off…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259114
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The impact of the sanctions Russia imposed after Turkey shot down its warplane on November 24.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB210287
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Doha is boosting the liquidity of the QIA, its sovereign wealth fund (SWF), using some of its high fiscal surplus. The SWF is in the midst of a period of portfolio rebalancing, by…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282269
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Some economies will benefit, and others will not. However, even the countries that benefit will incur a downside from those same high fossil fuel prices. The beneficiaries are the…
The fall, which is likely to prove temporary, broke a rising trend. Despite the freeze in relations between Doha and its neighbours, sizeable foreign assets have alleviated…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB229090
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The wage scale law was cast into question when a contentious tax hike law intended to fund it was annulled by the Constitutional Council on September 22, partly on the grounds…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224722
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The Egyptian authorities early this week announced a wide range of measures in response to the damaging economic impact of the Ukraine war, in particular the surge in food and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB268179
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This reflects the impact of the Ukraine conflict on world commodity prices, as well as the damage wrought by climate change on Morocco's water resources and agriculture. The…