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Saudi 2017 Budget Will Seek to Reduce Deficit, Create Surplus by 2020
- December 22,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s government will reportedly unveil a plan to balance its high deficit and work to achieve a surplus in 2020, according to a senior government official with knowledge of the matter as quoted in Bloomberg. The plan was devised by the powerful Council on Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA), which is chaired by Deputy Crown Prince […]
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Careem, an Uber Rival in the Middle East, is Newest ‘Unicorn’ Company with Saudi, Japanese Investments
- December 19,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Careem, one of Uber’s rivals in the Middle East, has taken in $350 million in investment led by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten and Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the second investment made by Saudi Arabia’s government into ride-sharing apps this year. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) invested $3.5 billion in ride-hailing app Uber in June, […]
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Saudi Arabia’s New Currency Offers Security Upgrades, Phases Out Small Notes
- December 14,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia has unveiled newly designed banknotes and coins with added security features that make forgery difficult. The new issuance is the first step to addressing the preponderance of one-Riyal bills currently in circulation. Half of all Saudi paper notes are one-Riyal notes, which is worth a little more than a quarter U.S. dollar. A […]
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Surprise Early Gains for Saudi Leaders in Fight Against State Spending as Successful Deficit Cuts Seen Beyond Projections – Reuters
- December 13,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s 2017 state budget is “likely to show Riyadh has shrunk a huge deficit caused by cheap oil faster than expected, which may let it spend more to bolster a shaky economy” next year, according to a report in Reuters by reporters Marwa Rashad and Andrew Torchia. After a tough year economically for the Kingdom, […]
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$800m King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran Opens
- December 2,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Aramco opened the $800 million King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran on Thursday, a large steel structure that aims to deepen knowledge and creativity among Saudi youth, according to reports. According to Reuters, the center, known as “Ithra” (“to enrich” in Arabic) is located close to Saudi’s “prosperity well” that tapped some of the […]
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Trump’s Complex Global Business Interests Could Present Problems for President-Elect
- November 22,2016
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- SUSTG Team
President-elect Donald Trump’s complex business dealings before and during his candidacy for the office, and now after his victory on November 8th, continue to draw scrutiny from the media and elected officials in the United States. The president-elect has drawn additional attention for his initial meetings with world leaders that apparently mix his business and family […]
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Three New Ventures by MiSK to Boost Innovation, Training and Investment
- November 18,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s MiSK Foundation launched three new strategic ventures in Riyadh aimed “at comprehensively building the skills, knowledge and capability for economic growth within the Saudi Arabian tech sector,” Reuters and the Saudi Gazette reports. MiSK Academy, MiSK Technovation and MiSK Booster mark a significant new development in the foundation’s work to empower, […]
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Updated LinkedIn Profiles Indicate Key Hires by Saudi Arabia’s PIF
- November 17,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Recently updated LinkedIn profiles indicate a hiring spree by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) as the Kingdom looks to use the sovereign wealth fund to jump-start its reform plans. Reuters reports that several executives have updated their LinkedIn profiles to indicate a new affiliation with the PIF, but the PIF did not comment directly on […]
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‘Downward Trend’ in Economic Activity Seen in Latest Jadwa Investment Chartbook
- November 3,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Jadwa Investment’s recently released economic chartbook for the month of November found a downward trend in economic activity and the fourth consecutive negative change in government accounts with SAMA. “Economic data for September showed a downward trend in economic activity,” Jadwa said it the report, pointing to negative growth in cash withdrawals from ATMs and […]
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Are oil markets better off with OPEC cuts?
- October 17,2016
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- SUSTG Team
Jadwa Investment’s latest Quarterly Oil Market Update anticipates that OPEC’s decision to announce, but not to implement, a cut in production will likely lead to a small cut in oil production “more akin to a production ’freeze’ rather than an outright cut”. “Any agreement by OPEC, if reached, will of course need to be acted […]
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Saudi LeadershipPerspective: What’s ahead for Saudi Arabia?
SANG initially played a minor role in the Yemen war, but it has become a more prominent player since the war became bogged down in a stalemate.
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Saudi - Israel: Track Two DialogueHow important is Saudi-Israeli track-two diplomacy?
These affiliations suggest a possibility that, at least on the Saudi side, the dialogue was revealed because it’s no longer impactful. The engagement with Israel might have been more an initiative of the previous regime, which has now been supplanted through a series of swift policy and personnel changes by the new king. There would thus be little reason for the Saudis involved to continue to keep the channel secret, and perhaps some hope that revealing it will increase pressure on their new leadership to explore some of the ideas the track-two dialogue produced.
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Saudi-IranOpinion: Are Saudi Arabia and Iran heading to war?
It is wrong to look at Operation Decisive Storm merely as an incidental Saudi military operation against the Houthis. This is a Saudi policy combining diplomacy and war to stop Iranian influence then push it out of Syria and Yemen.
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SME DevelopmentAre MENA’s SME business reforms doing enough?
According to the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report, since 2008 MENA governments passed 200 business reforms, the majority of which - 173, or 87 percent - had a positive effect (at least on paper) on the business environment.
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Saudi Energy PolicyWill Saudi boost oil capacity? Naimi’s retort: Show me 10 pct return
Saudi officials have consistently brushed aside questions of new upstream investment. After finishing the kingdom's programme to add nearly 4 million bpd of capacity in 2009, Saudi officials and oil company executives have talked on and off about the possibility of targeting another boost to 15 million bpd by 2020, but those plans were shelved several years ago as demand growth cooled and new supplies emerged.
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Regional Threats: IranAnalysis: Why isn’t there an anti-Iran alliance?
Saudi Arabia is fighting in Yemen and supporting rebels in Syria in part to push back against Iranian influence. Saudi’s highly vocal efforts can distract from one of the most notable yet underappreciated elements of the current Middle East: the lack of a strong regional alliance against Iran. The absence of such a countervailing coalition is explained by what political scientist Randall Schweller termed “underbalancing,” the inability or unwillingness of states to form the kind of blocking alliances that balance of power theory would predict.
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YemenPerspective: Why did Saudi Arabia intervene in Yemen?
Saudi Arabia's priority is to have a stable neighbor to the south and to protect its southernmost cities of Najran, Jizan and Khamis Mushayt.
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Renewable EnergyCould Middle East Switch From Oil To Renewable Superpower?
Even as Saudi Arabian officials continue to tout its shift to renewable energy, it may be oil-poor countries in the region like Jordan and Egypt that can benefit sooner from falling prices in solar power.
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Anti-ISIS Campaign: IraqDude, where’s my Humvee? Iraq losing equipment to Islamic State at staggering rate
Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when Islamic State overran the northern city of Mosul in June 2014, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday in an interview with Iraqiya state television. Coupled with previous losses of American weapons, the conclusion is simple: The United States is effectively supplying Islamic State with tools of war the militant group cannot otherwise hope to acquire from its patrons.
- Long War Journal - Islamic State shows off 'spoils of war' from recent battles near Fallujah
- McClatchy - Iraqis recount their lives under the Islamic State: Cheap food, endless rules
- AP - U.S.-led coalition doubles down on strategy to fight ISIS
- War on the Rocks - Iraq after Ramadi: Saving the Anti-ISIL Strategy
- The Hill - Pentagon: 2,000 anti-tank weapons arrive in Iraq
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MigrationMigration: Are more people on the move than ever before?
Half of all international migrants live in just 10 countries. The largest number (46 million) reside in the United States. By 2013, the US was host to 13 million people born in Mexico, but the fastest growth was among recent arrivals from China (2.2m) and India (2.1m).
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