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Syria's economy needs remittances even more than it needs aid

Jan 7, 2025 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

The cost of rebuilding Syria could run into hundreds of billions of dollars. APThe cost of rebuilding Syria could run into hundreds of billions of dollars. APSyria's economy needs remittances even more than it needs aidOmar Al-Ubaydli is director of economics and energy studies at Derasat in Bahrain and a columnist for The NationalJanuary 08, 2025
Syria's economy needs remittances even more than it needs aid

Jan 7, 2025 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

The cost of rebuilding Syria could run into hundreds of billions of dollars. APThe cost of rebuilding Syria could run into hundreds of billions of dollars. APSyria's economy needs remittances even more than it needs aidOmar Al-Ubaydli is director of economics and energy studies at Derasat in Bahrain and a columnist for The NationalJanuary 08, 2025
Will It Scale?

Dec 4, 2024 | issues.org | Omar Al-Ubaydli |John List |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

During the bloodiest battles of the First World War, a young French sergeant named André Maginot was injured in the fighting, earning him a medal for valor. He later rose to the position of French minister of war and became famous for building a series of defensive fortifications along the Franco-German border. The design of the Maginot Line, as it came to be known, was not the result of abstract musings.
Analysis: Gulf countries should restore discretion in foreign aid | Semafor

Dec 2, 2024 | semafor.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

Gulf countries used to deliver foreign aid discreetly, but have recently adopted the Western-inspired practice of transparently documenting financial support to less fortunate nations. For strategic and moral reasons, they should consider returning to their roots, potentially setting an example for Western countries to emulate. Compared to European countries, Gulf governments are relatively young, meaning that many processes taken for granted in Paris, Berlin, and London are still developing.
Gulf countries need to study Europe to secure a free trade agreement

Nov 12, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

Containers are unloaded from a ship from Jebel Ali at the Port of Valencia in Spain. The EU and GCC are working towards securing a free trade agreement. Bloomberg
What Gulf economies can learn from Britain's Industrial Revolution

Oct 30, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

An international technology conference at Adnec in Abu Dhabi. Antonie Robertson / The National
Why do more Arabs not win the Nobel Prize?

Oct 25, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

A woman enters the the Swedish Academy ahead of the announcement of the laureate of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 10. AFP
Analysis: The Gulf needs young Sergey Brins, not Albert Einsteins | Semafor

Oct 15, 2024 | semafor.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have recently started offering elite expatriates the opportunity to secure naturalized citizenship, following the example of points-based immigration systems like those in Australia and Canada. Building a pool of genuinely loyal, globally recognized superstars may require deeper investment, however — in more earthbound immigrants, and their children. When policymakers imagine the benefits of naturalizing elites, they cite the example of Albert Einstein.
Islamic diplomacy can take a leaf out of the late Pope John Paul II's page

Oct 2, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

An air craft delivers pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, in January 2010. US Air ForceAn air craft delivers pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, in January 2010. US Air ForceIslamic diplomacy can take a leaf out of the late Pope John Paul II's pageOmar Al-Ubaydli is director of economics and energy studies at Derasat in Bahrain and a columnist for The NationalOctober 02, 2024
How deep crises remove barriers to long-term investment

Sep 26, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Omar Al-Ubaydli

ONE BIG IDEAThe 1970s oil shocks — driven in large part by Gulf policies — deeply scarred the US, providing the impetus for bets on nascent drilling technologies that took decades to bear fruit, but which inoculated the US from a repeat crisis, and ultimately turned it into the world’s biggest oil producer.