DUBAI: Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to...
RIYADH: In a cavernous exhibition hall on the outskirts of Riyadh, dozens of young Saudi women in full-length black abayas and veils stroll between corporate...
CAIRO: Two months after mass protests ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak last February, Ahmad Essam resigned from his job at a well-established software...
AMMAN/CAIRO: Mazen Dajani, chief executive of Jordan's CTI Group, says the Arab Spring accomplished what the global financial crisis of 2008-9 did not: it...
DUBAI: In July, as a political dispute in Washington threatened to cause a U.S. debt default, the central bank of the United Arab Emirates declared it had...
DUBAI: Meeting early this month, Gulf finance ministers insisted their economies could cope comfortably with the looming global slump. During the...
LONDON/FRANKFURT: With financial markets in turmoil and economic growth slowing, policymakers around the world may once again be forced to cooperate to try to...