How Peer-to-Peer Learning Can Help to Improve Youth Job Prospects.
Peer-to-peer learning among teens might be a cost-effective way of helping those falling behind to get back on track and at the same time develop a sense of civic duty among youth.
The economic program focuses on the economies of Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf region, covering the macro-economy, economic development, energy and labour markets.
Peer-to-peer learning among teens might be a cost-effective way of helping those falling behind to get back on track and at the same time develop a sense of civic duty among youth.
Remote work is not what the shirking workers were initially expecting, as per Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli's recent article, remote work is actually beneficial to the committed hard working professionals.
The UAE’s recent decision to offer top global talent a path to Emirati citizenship could be strengthened by a strategy that tailors the UAE's immigration system to capture talent by spotting and naturalizing talented teens and their families.
With thousands of young Gulf nationals studying abroad, Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli suggests that by not integrating into local communities, opportunities for creating soft power are being wasted.
Improving the USA's fiscal situation and encouraging environmental protection are unsustainable, and Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli argues that Biden needs to accept that protecting the environment cannot happen without painful sacrifices to living standards for all.
A paper that highlights the most prominent opportunities and challenges resulting from remote work in the Bahraini public sector during the corona virus pandemic.
Although complex reasons are cited for variations between countries in Covid-19 deaths, Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli discusses an interesting correlation between countries devastated by past wars, and fewer numbers of Covid losses.
A report by Derasat in collaboration with UNDP that examines and describes the effect of the Covid-19 confinement on people’s lives and their physical and mental well-being.
One of the lessons learned a year after the start of COVID-19 is that in the fight against future pandemics, we may have to choose between the suppression of the disease and the protection of people's civil liberties.
A report that presents the major issues related to the impact of Covid-19 on Bahrain’s private sector, and presents a series of recommendations targeting businesses and policymakers.
As the slew of vaccines emerging in record time indicates, there is much truth to the maxim “necessity is the mother of all invention.” An article that explores how lockdowns can boost innovation.
An article that explores some recent research regarding the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in the Gulf, and stresses the importance of upgrading the quality of data gathered.
Despite the enormous increase in the number of Covid-19 deaths, multiple outlets have reported that this pandemic has failed to produce a comparable emotional response to tragedies on a smaller scale.
Trump and Biden offer different economic visions for the US, but, as Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli discusses, whoever wins will be constrained by the US political system’s checks and balances
An article that features the important lessons Gulf science can learn from the 2020 economics Nobel prize.
In Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, female citizens have kept their jobs amid the coronavirus at higher rates than in Western countries. This reflects the unique labor market structures of the Gulf countries.
Derasat's research fellow, Dr. Fatima Al Sebaie co-authored a policy brief titled "Assessing The Impact Of Stablecoins On The International Monetary System: G20 And IMF To Study The Impact Of Facebook’s Libra Project".
A new survey report by Derasat in collaboration with UNDP that analyses the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 on communities in Bahrain with a comparison to the UK and USA.
For the global economy, venture capital is important. Thankfully, amid warnings from scientists, it has survived the coronavirus pandemic and will help the world recover.
Despite their high per capita incomes, the Gulf countries today have low levels of R&D spending. In this article Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli, examines an important component: the weaknesses of PhD programs in Gulf countries.