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Corporate watch: Turkish discount retailer makes a rare bet on Egypt
Had its good intentions been realised, the Arab spring would have been a magnet for foreign direct investment. Sadly, the instability that has followed the ousting of some of the region’s most...
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Inflation recalls ghosts of Arab spring
Inflation is on the rise in the Middle East and north Africa, bringing risks to consumption-driven growth and adding to political strains in the transitional countries least able to cope with...
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Egypt’s Sawiris case raises fears over investment environment
Photo: Bloomberg An Egyptian proverb says, “when the merchant goes bust, he starts searching through his old books,” in the hope, of course, of finding a debt or two that he can call in. To many...
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Guest post: the Arab world needs credible reformers
By Dalibor Rohac of the Cato Institute Egypt is facing its deepest political crisis since February 2011. On Sunday, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that both the election to the Shura council,...
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Bahrain: protests, rating review, oil price worries? Time to borrow…
Strife-torn Bahrain is looking to tap debt markets a week after Moody’s placed the Gulf kingdom on review for a possible downgrade. If Bahrain can get the bond away during tougher market conditions,...
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Public protest: different sparks, common desires
The world’s emerging markets are in the grip of an unprecedented wave of public protest. Today it’s Brazil. A few days ago it was Turkey. Before that there were Russia, Indonesia, India, and South...
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Guest post: lessons for Egypt and Arab world lie in Asia
By Jean-Pierre Lehmann of IMD Many of us are unlikely to mourn the departure of Mohamed Morsi from Egypt’s presidency. Though to some his forced exit may appear a blow to democracy, to others it...
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The cost of a revolution: $800bn
It'll cost you Commenting on the Russian revolution, Joseph Stalin is alleged to have said, “You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.” What then is the price of eggs? HSBC has totted up...
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Oman gets tough with striking teachers in revival of unrest
March 2011 A three-week teachers’ strike in Oman suggests that the genie of unrest is out of the bottle in this unassuming corner of the oil-rich Gulf. The strike has affected up to three quarters of...
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Davos wrap: beware the EM middle class
What will the EMs next “black swan” be? With the crash of the Argentinian peso, the difficult Syrian peace talks in Montreux, and Iran’s nuclear situation, WEF participants last week had enough...
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Egypt’s al-Sisi: so far so good, say economists
After 100 days in power, Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been given a cautious thumbs up by economists. Al-Sisi, a former defence minister, won a landslide victory in Egypt’s presidential...
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Wholesale rethink of post-Arab Spring aid is long overdue
On the day of the Paris terror attacks US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Tunisia, five years after the Arab Spring erupted and months after Tunisia’s own Isis assaults on prominent tourist...
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