The Saudi Arabian economy recorded its first outright contraction at the start of 2017 since the world was gripped by the financial crisis almost 10 years ago. Growth contracted by…

he kingdom has put an ambitious economic transformation plan in place to deal with lower oil prices. Any failure to deliver will risk a fiscal crisis, a currency devaluation, and/or…

Saudi Arabia is the MENA region’s largest healthcare and pharmaceuticals market. With a large and affluent population, the sector has attracted attention from private equity players and foreign multi-nationals alike.…

Even by the tumultuous standards of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the past few years have been remarkably violent and destructive. The Syrian and Libyan economies have…

Over the past several decades, the MENA region has realised the growing importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in economic development and diversification, job creation, reducing unemployment, raising incomes,…