One of us, Ángela, grew up hearing stories of Saudi Arabia from her father, an electrical engineer who helped set up ...

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 ...

El Salvador appeared to contradict a recent agreement with the IMF to cease public investment in Bitcoin. Salvadoran ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: Government officers in the country have been instructed to declare their assets by September 2025 as part of ...

If sustained, U.S. tariffs imposed on Mexico and Canada will have a significant adverse impact on the those countries, the ...

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

On February 25th Sir Keir Starmer chopped Britain’s aid budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of gross national income to spend more on ...

President Bukele defies IMF demands to halt Bitcoin accumulation, adding to El Salvador's holdings despite loan conditions ...

Economists have expressed fears that the American economy may be on a path toward recession or a downturn that could rival ...

El Salvador expanded its Bitcoin reserves to over 6,102 BTC, continuing its purchases after securing a $1.4b IMF financial ...

Sustaining economic growth by raising domestic consumption is one of the priorities for China's government this year ...