Analysis

• KINGDOM

  Seven years of prosperity and development

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 14. 2012

  Saudi Arabia will mark the seventh anniversary of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s accession to the Saudi throne on May 17 with a variety of programs highlighting the remarkable progress achieved by the Kingdom.

• POLICY

  Saudi Perspective on the Middle East: Obaid

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 14. 2012

  The presentation was released under the banner of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, where Obaid is a senior fellow.

• ECONOMY

  Jadwa: Inflation Report, April 2012

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 13. 2012

  Year-on-year inflation dipped to 5.3 percent in April from 5.4 percent in March. Lower food price inflation was the main reason for the decline. Rental inflation picked up.

• WATER

  Not a Drop to Drink: The Global Water Crisis

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 9. 2012

  In the next twenty years, global demand for fresh water will vastly outstrip reliable supply in many parts of the world.

• PETROCHEMICALS

  Petchem projects lead Saudi industrialization drive

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  The Saudi project market continues to thrive. Latest data from Meed put the value of projects “planned or underway” at $745 billion in mid-April, around 13 percent higher than a year earlier.

• TOURISM

  Journey of a lifetime

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 4. 2012

  My purpose was to travel with my mother to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah, a mini version of the annual Hajj pilgrimage millions of Muslims make each year to Mecca. The historic city of Medina was the first stop on the journey before we continued on to Mecca for Umrah.

• SECURITY

  Al-Qaida’s wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 30. 2012

  This is the region of newly proclaimed jihadi emirates in south Yemen that are run by affiliates of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni franchise of the movement founded by Osama bin Laden.

• FINANCE

  Positive Steps: Interview with Saudi Minister of Finance Al Assaf

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 23. 2012

  The industrial sector is the real excitement for us, which is growing at a rate of 15 per­cent, which is not a joke. The other one is service sector, like the financial services or the restaurant and hotels or other services in the economy.

• OIL

  “Milestone” oil manipulation case unsettles traders

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 21. 2012

  U.S. regulators’ $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a “milestone” victory in their toughening stance on market malfeasance which is being closely watched by traders.