Kuwait Stock Exchange, Jack Dabaghian, Kuwait Ministry of Information / flickr.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). The MENA region has in the past served as inspiration for political economy theories that have ...

On May 4 1999, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah ... on the grounds that popular political participation would resume in the summer. Other voices, however, mainly from opposition ...

Unsurprisingly, the country’s financial sector has not been isolated from the political uncertainty. In mid-January, the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) dropped to a five-year low—in reaction to ...

This research project analyses the emerging ‘New Kuwait’, with particular focus on the role of the private sector in the post-oil dependent Kuwaiti political economy. It seeks to empirically examine ...