Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’
Gatekeepers review on spiked
16 Apr 2013I rarely write about Israeli politics nowadays but this film review is one of my occasional forays into the subject. The Gatekeepers is a remarkable documentary that illustrates an important shift in Israeli attitudes over the past four decades. Unfortunately, most Western commentators only see in it a confirmation of their own prejudices. Dror Moreh, [...]
- Tags: film, Middle East, review, spiked
Sabbath in Jerusalem
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13 Nov 2012Walk around the streets of Jerusalem during the day on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, and you get a sense of the divisions that afflict the city. Although these are most visibly religious, cultural and political they have economic implications too. Perhaps the most conspicuous inhabitants of the city are to be found among its ultra-religious [...]
- Tags: economics, Fund Strategy, Middle East
A dangerous game in the Mid East
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3 Sep 2012This Perspective column was first published in today’s edition of Fund Strategy. This year could go down as the time when the British media missed the emergence of by far the most important global news story. Leave aside the obvious trivia of a prince going nude in a Las Vegas hotel. This could be a [...]
- Tags: America, Fund Strategy, Middle East
Article on Middle East Clarity
13 Nov 2011Middle East Clarity, a valuable portal for anyone trying to follow political developments across the region, has today included a link to my latest Fund Strategy article on the Arab spring.
The Arab spring one year on
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7 Nov 2011This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. The Arab spring that erupted late last year reintroduced the concept of political risk to emerging economies. For many years western investors were almost solely interested in the business and market prospects of the countries in which they invested. They paid little attention to the potential [...]
- Tags: Fund Strategy, Middle East
FT on youth unemployment
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16 Aug 2011Some interesting facts but misleading comparisons in yesterday’s Financial Times comment on youth unemployment: “High youth unemployment is not just a North African problem. The looting that ravaged English cities last week happened in a country where one in five young people is jobless. The picture in the US is no better. In continental Europe [...]
- Tags: Europe, living standards, Middle East, work
Egyptian public opinion
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11 Jun 2011I do not intend to turn this into a Middle East blog (see 6 June post) but this survey by Williams & Associates of Massachusetts includes fascinating opinion poll data on Egypt: 89% of Egyptians say the country is going in the right direction. 49% see the current economic situation as very bad and 32% [...]
- Tags: Middle East
Mid East article on RealClearWorld
7 Jun 2011My recent article on the causes of the Arab Spring has appeared on the RealClearWorld website (the sister portal of RealClearMarkets).
Middle East Clarity
6 Jun 2011A link to my Arab Spring article has appeared on the Middle East Clarity website. The new site is a valuable portal for anyone trying to follow political developments across the region.
- Tags: media appearances, Middle East
My take on Arab Spring
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6 Jun 2011There follows the opening paragraphs to my Fund Strategy cover story on the Arab Spring. The full article is available here Rising numbers of educated youth, surging food prices and a crisis in the legitimacy of regimes stoked unrest in Arab countries. But the region faces uncertainty and the process of change is likely to [...]
- Tags: development, economics, food, Fund Strategy, Middle East
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