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Gulf set for large-scale drawdown of foreign assets

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GULF STATES

Gulf debt and sovereign wealth funds.

Gulf taxation plans will not plug fiscal deficits

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GULF STATES

Taxation in the Gulf.

Airbus-Boeing WTO tax dispute will benefit rivals

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US/WTO

WTO ruling against Boeing over tax incentives.

Manama will struggle to vary its investor offering

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BAHRAIN

The Economic Development Board (EDB), the country’s investment promotion agency, announced in March that its ‘golden licence’ scheme of incentives for local and foreign investors…

Debt issuance will be strong in the Gulf states

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GULF STATES

Debt issuance has risen across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), despite high global interest rates. Drivers include incentivising local capital market development and meeting…

Saudi Arabia will lead Gulf funds’ inward focus shift

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GULF STATES

This echoed the strategy of the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states after the 2008 global financial crisis, but there are several key differences: GCC…

COVID-19 and oil shocks raise Gulf recession risks

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GULF STATES

Lower oil and gas revenues are the major transmission channel of the global crisis to regional economies, but tourism, financial and professional services are also taking a major…

Damascus will likely fail to stem currency collapse

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SYRIA

The Syrian pound’s weakening beyond 1,000 to the dollar on the parallel market has exposed the chronic weakness of the economy, even as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces move…

Prospects for Iran in 2022

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PROSPECTS 2022

Prospects for Iran in 2022.

Gulf oil dependency poses long-term stability risk

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GULF STATES

Diversification outlook in the GCC.