While in 2015 the world’s emerging countries and fastest-growing economies suffered due to low commodity prices and currency depreciations, Dubai still enjoyed steady GDP growth at around 4% and an increased drive towards consolidating its position as a knowledge-based economy. With a well-diversified model and a set of transformation-oriented projects worth some Dh300bn ($81.7m) in the...
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The emirate of Dubai, by virtue of being less generously endowed with hydrocarbons than its regional neighbours, has worked hard over the past several decades to develop a wider, more diversified economic bedrock to power growth. As a result the emirate has several sectors whose growth is not wholly contingent on hydrocarbons revenues, and which continue to prosper in the current environment.
Articles & Analysis | GCC governments introducing subsidy and price reforms from The Report: Kuwait 2016
In a region that produces 20% of the world’s crude, the decline of oil prices was bound to have an impact. For the six member states of the GCC, hydrocarbons are the basis for their economies, a major export earner, and the main source of government funds. The drop in global oil prices that began in mid-2014 has therefore squeezed state...
Articles & Analysis | Range of measures to support growth of Kuwait's SMEs from The Report: Kuwait 2016
With low oil prices continuing to take their toll on the Kuwaiti economy, the government is hoping investment in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector begins to pay dividends. Indeed, there is significant room for growth in Kuwait’s SME sector: it contributes just 3% to GDP, compared to an average of 50% in high-income economies,...
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait's recent indicators highlight challenges and potential from The Report: Kuwait 2016
By mid-2016 the period of slow economic growth and falling government revenues that kicked off across the GCC in 2014 was widely thought to have reached an inflection point. The region’s economy is expected to gradually firm up over the medium term. In Kuwait, which like most of its neighbours experienced economic contraction in 2014 and 2015...
Articles & Analysis | Kuwaiti government plans to move ahead with major projects from The Report: Kuwait 2016
Lower oil prices have significantly affected the Kuwaiti government’s fiscal position. Oil and gas exports make up 90% of public spending. The recent decline in energy prices has resulted in lower oil export revenues, which are projected to fall from $112.9bn in 2012 to $51bn in 2016, according to December 2015 data from the IMF. Tumbling oil...