With the price of crude plunging, oil supply facts can provide insight about its production, consumption, and significance.…
Why It’s Tough for OPEC to Fight the Frackers
The OPEC nations are having a tough time deciding what oil price to target because it all depends on how U.S. shale oil producers will respond.…
How Women Could Elevate the Saudi GDP
Far more than constraining Saudi women, Saudi Arabia’s discrimination diminishes the entire economy’s production possibilities.…
Curing Saudi Arabia’s Dutch Disease
The Saudi king’s golden escalators are examples of their affluence from oil and the need for Saudi diversification from oil.…
The (Dutch) Disease in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
As in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, the Dutch disease that an economy catches comes from too much dependence for revenue and jobs on one commodity like oil.…
What You Might Not Know About Cheap Oil
Because markets fluctuate, oil prices will rise and fall but the consequences of cheap oil can be unexpected.…
Gender Issues: Saudi Working Women
What a difference a job makes! In Saudi Arabia, although many women still need a man’s “yes,” for most major and minor decisions ranging from marrying to mall shopping, a recent decr…
One Huge Reason Why the Global Gender Gap Report Affects You
On Saturday, in Saudi Arabia, one woman with an international driver’s license drove to her local grocery store, alone, to purchase a container of milk. Elated, she arrived home to report that t…
Gender Issues: A Saudi Subway
Monthly, a Saudi college student spends $535 (2,000 riyals) for a minibus that drives her to and from school. Without the minibus, she would need a taxi or a male driver because religious law prohibit…
A Female Friendly (Industrial) City?
Sometimes it is tough to make your economy more productive. In Saudi Arabia, just one woman at the office means you have to have a thick barrier separating her from everyone else. She needs her own en…