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UN · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
The Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index averaged 131.1 points in July 2026, up 0.7 points or 0.6 percent on June…
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Rating Agencies · Aug 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed Kuwait's long-term issuer default ratings at AA- with a Stable outlook in a 7 August rating action, keeping the…
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World Bank · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Bank Group's Independent Evaluation Group published its Country Program Evaluation for Egypt on 6 August 2026, covering the financial years…
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International Organizations · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank for International Settlements published Bulletin No 131, "Energy shocks and inflation: challenges for monetary policy", on 5 August 2026. The…
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OECD · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer price inflation across the OECD area eased in June, the organisation reported in its Consumer Prices update published on 4 August…
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World Bank · Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Only 4.5 percent of jobs in developing economies face automation risk from generative artificial intelligence, against 14.2 percent in high-income countries, the…
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OPEC · Aug 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Seven OPEC+ countries approved a combined increase of 188,000 barrels a day in their oil production targets from September, completing the phased…
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IMF · Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Reports circulated on 31 July and 1 August that Egypt had raised household electricity prices by an average of 12 percent while…
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Global · Jul 31, 2026 · 8 min read
The IMF reports global current account balances widened in 2025, with oil exporter surpluses shrinking and excessive imbalances accounting for a larger…
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IMF · Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects Saudi economic growth of 1.7 percent in 2026 before a rebound to 5.5 percent in 2027, as…
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Bahrain · Jul 30, 2026 · 11 min read
Five Arab economies are projected to carry general government gross debt above 80 percent of gross domestic product in 2026, according to…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Seven OPEC Plus producers meet on 2 August having raised August targets by 188 thousand barrels a day, the third consecutive month…
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OPEC expects world oil demand to grow by about six hundred thousand barrels a day this year, the organization said in its Monthly Oil Market Report published on Wednesday, cutting the forecast by two hundred thousand barrels a day from its July assessment. The figure stands two point two million barrels a day above the…
Median government debt across African economies stood at fifty seven percent of gross domestic product in 2025, about ten percentage points above its pre-pandemic level, while net interest payments absorbed fourteen percent of government revenue, according to a bulletin published by the Bank for International Settlements on Tuesday. The authors note that governments tightened their…
World oil demand will fall by one point six million barrels a day in 2026, a deeper contraction than the one million a day it forecast in July, the International Energy Agency said in its Oil Market Report published on Wednesday, pointing to the continuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the high fuel…
Artificial intelligence could meaningfully raise productivity in sixteen point two percent of jobs in developing economies, close to the eighteen point seven percent expected in high income countries, while putting a far smaller share of jobs at risk of automation, according to the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2026, released on 4 August. The…
The eighth and final review of Egypt’s programme with the International Monetary Fund is expected to be completed in November, Mohamed Maait, an Executive Director at the Fund representing a constituency that includes Egypt, said in an interview with Asharq Bloomberg. The Fund’s own schedule sets the review as completable on or after 15 September,…
The World Bank has approved a one hundred million dollar grant to modernise Syria’s financial system, its Board of Executive Directors clearing the Syria Financial Sector Modernization Project on 6 August and the Bank announcing it on 7 August. The money is an International Development Association grant, equivalent to seventy three point eight million special…
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index averaged 131.1 points in July 2026, up 0.7 points or 0.6 percent on June and 1.3 points or 1.0 percent above July 2025, the organization reported on 7 August. The index remains 29.1 points, or 18.2 percent, below the peak it reached in March 2022. The stability…
Fitch Ratings affirmed Kuwait’s long-term issuer default ratings at AA- with a Stable outlook in a 7 August rating action, keeping the country among the highest-rated sovereigns it covers through a year of regional conflict and disrupted oil exports. The rating rests on what Fitch calls exceptionally strong fiscal and external balance sheets, anchored by…
The World Bank Group’s Independent Evaluation Group published its Country Program Evaluation for Egypt on 6 August 2026, covering the financial years 2015 to 2025. Its central finding on public finances is stark in its simplicity: Egypt’s tax revenue was 12.6 percent of gross domestic product in financial year 2015 and 12.7 percent in financial…
The Bank for International Settlements published Bulletin No 131, “Energy shocks and inflation: challenges for monetary policy”, on 5 August 2026. The note is written by Ryan Niladri Banerjee, Fiorella De Fiore, Marco Jacopo Lombardi and Giovanni Lombardo, with Gaston Gelos and Frank Smets as series editors. Its first key takeaway is blunt: “The recent…