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Egypt To Extend Gas Grid With World Bank Help
...in 2011, Tunisia appears to be moving towards more liberal forms of governance and more citizen participation. “Tunisia has embarked on the historic task of reorganizing the way decision making in response to citizen needs and priorities is distributed, putting decentralization at the heart of its ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Iranian Oil Export Revenues Slump 39% In 2013
...IRAN The value of Iran’s petroleum exports fell to $61.9bn in 2013, down a whopping 39% on $101.5bn for 2012. This was already well down on $114.8bn for 2011. Latest data released by OPEC shows, as export volumes slumped in the fact of tightening Western sanctions. Iranian crude oil ex...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
Sudan Economy Continues To Reel From Southern Amputation
...layed by around 16 months, resulting in a further hit to the Sudanese economy. “What we saw was a significant increase in the budget deficit [in this period],” Mr Erasmus says. “The budget balance deteriorated from a surplus of around 0.2% in 2011, to a deficit of 4.5% in 2012. This was financed al...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
IMF Lauds Saudi Economic Performance, But Warns Spending Is Too High
...cade, the government has finally decided to press ahead with the measure as part of a series of gradual liberal reforms.” Saudi Arabia: The IMF’s Latest Economic Numbers (2010–14) 2010 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 30Published at Fri, 25 Jul 2014 -
MENA Energy Subsidies: Some Progress But Much More To Do-IMF
...port, ‘Subsidy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa: Recent Progress and Challenges Ahead,’ questions whether Egypt has properly laid the ground for such reform. MENA: 48% Of Global Total MENA countries spend much more on subsidies than other regions: for 2011 the cost was $237bn, 48% of th...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
Egypt Looks to Reform To Attract Investment, Boost Growth
...2% for the current 2014-15 fiscal year, which began on 1 July. Egypt’s growth rate has been stuck at around 2% for the past three years (see graph, MEES 4 July) – that is to say since the Arab Spring ‘Revolution’ of early 2011. Without the two economic stimulus packages of $4.3bn and $4.9bn in...
Volume: 57Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2014 -
Production Restarts At DNO Yemen Blocks
...en the growing strength of local workers’ unions in Yemen’s oil and gas sector. In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, oil workers have increasingly turned to strike action over the last three years to demand better rights for themselves. Among the companies most recently affected by this is No...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
IFC Invests In ACWA Power To Support MENA Renewables
...one of the world’s largest owners and operators of desalination plants, “have attracted the interest of the IFC.” The IFC began working with ACWA in 2011 in Jordan, where it has 51% of generator CEGCO, and is considering investing with ACWA in Morocco’s 160MW Noor-1 solar project, where co...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Egypt’s 2014-15 Budget Slashes Energy Subsidies, Deficit
...e IMF in particular has pressed for the curbing of the budget deficit as one of its preconditions to approve a $4.8bn loan to Egypt which was first considered in 2011, but is still pending. Egyptian officials – buoyed by Gulf largesse – say that the time has not yet come for further discussion on th...
Volume: 57Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2014 -
GCC Economies ‘Hooked’ On Bumper Oil And Gas Revenues -S&P
...r reserves and production. Stable Prices? Of course, GCC producers are aware of market risks. But with oil prices seemingly rangebound at $100-110/B since early 2011, a geopolitical climate that supports prices, and the emergence of new pressures – such as the need for prices to remain ov...
Volume: 57Issue: 27Published at Fri, 04 Jul 2014 -
Mideast FDI: ‘Bleak’ Prospects Amid Post-Arab Spring Instability-UN
...litical and social upheavals following the 2011 Arab Spring continue to weigh down economic activity and deter potential investors. This comes despite an overall upturn in global economic conditions, and FDI, over the past year. Global FDI inflows rose 9% to $1.45 trillion last year, but for the MENA re...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Jordan Plans $1Bn Bond
...reign grants to reduce its budget deficit. It expects to receive JD1,151mn ($1,623mn) in foreign grants in 2014, up from JD982mn ($1,385mn) in 2013 (MEES, 21 March). Gas Shortage Jordan’s fiscal situation worsened after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which led to a disruption in Egyptian gas su...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Sisi Promises Economic Reforms
...ne which began shortly after the fall of Husni Mubarak in 2011. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE pledged $12bn in aid after the removal of Islamist president Muhammad Mursi last year. Cairo is currently receiving assistance in the form of petroleum products from Saudi Arabia. The head of the Eg...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
Iran: Hope All-Pervasive, But Is It Justified?
...der the previous administration stand out. Mahmoud Reza Khavari, managing director of Bank Melli, Iran’s largest state-owned bank, fled the country to Canada in late 2011 in a $2.6bn embezzlement scandal. His alleged fraud involved the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least seven Ir...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Iran Braces For 20-30% Utility Price Hikes
...ify the system eventually failed. IMF: Challenges Ahead The IMF, in its first overview of the Iranian economy since late 2011, says Iran’s near term economic outlook remains subject to downside risks. Progress of recent decades in raising income and living standards stalled as both domestic po...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Qatar Announces Record Budget But Curbs Expenditure Growth
...up by more than 20%, in preparation for the hosting of the 2022 World Cup. The new budget, which began on 1 April, is expected to carry on with the implementation of programs and strategic development projects envisaged in Qatar’s national strategy for 2011-16, and the realization of the ob...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Algeria Returns To Expansionary Budget In 2014
...ALGERIA Algeria Returns To Expansionary Budget In 2014 Algeria has adopted an expansionary budget for 2014 after cutting 2013 budgeted spending. But the projected 2014 spend is still well down on the bumper 2011 spend, when Algiers attempted to stave off calls for po...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014 -
Kuwait Set To Double Budget Surplus
...riod (see table). Oil Dependence Kuwait is reliant on oil export revenue to finance 93% of the current budget, though this is down from 94.5% for 2011-12. Kuwait’s official budget for 2013-14, based on a highly conservative oil price of $70/B, contains a deficit of KD7.43bn. Kuwait budgets fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Tunisia Pledges Cuts To Avoid Economic ‘Catastrophe’
...lamist party Ennahda won the elections after the overthrow of Ben Ali’s regime in January 2011, but two political assassinations of prominent opposition deputies in 2013 reminded Tunisians that they were still in transition, given the economic challenges and external shocks experienced since 2011. La...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
UAE: Bonds Not Needed
...ending plan, first introduced in 2011 with a total outlay of Dh122bn ($33.2bn), was aimed at achieving sustained growth on a longer time horizon (MEES, 1 November 2013). Latest IMF projections expect UAE real GDP growth to remain firm at 4.5% in 2014, unchanged from 2013 (MEES, 7 February)....
Volume: 57Issue: 09Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2014