How can policymakers make calculated decisions between economic and public health interests? Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli discusses what impacts this trade off.
Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli
Coronavirus lockdowns: Why global leaders are right to avoid deadlines for lifting lockdown measures
Dr Omar Al-Ubaydli explains how global leaders might be right in largely refraining from giving deadlines to relax containment measures.
As professional soccer players are subjected to intense public pressure to take large pay cuts, Dr Omar Al-Ubaydli discusses why the level of pressure has been much higher than that faced by other millionaire professionals.
An extended paper that explains to non-specialists how the coronavirus will affect the global economy. It presents detailed data on the negative impact that has occurred thus far, as well as forecasts on the future damage to the global economy.
A new Derasat report that analyses the economic impact of the coronavirus, and the economic stimulus packages launched by world governments in response to the crisis.
As the world wrestles with the coronavirus, some of the economic figures are eye-watering. Dr Omar Al Ubaydli discusses where governments are suddenly finding money for stimulus packages.
Derasat’s Head of Research, Dr. Omar Al Ubaydli took part in a webinar on the impacts of Coronovirus organised by our partners, the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Italy on 19th March, 2020.
In his recent article in Al Arabiya, Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli noted that France was unusually assertive when describing its new Middle East policy at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain last week, and goes on to discuss the potential for new opportunities that might accompany President Macron’s apparent commitment to multilateralism.
A research paper on the prevailing trends in the US economy at the end of 2019, and the likelihood of the economy entering a recession; and in that case, what the impact will be on the Gulf economy.
In a recent seminar held by the Bahrain Economic’s Society, with regards to ‘Education in Bahrain’, Derasat researchers, Dr. Omar Al Ubaydli and Ghada Abdulla, took part in a panel discussion.