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The risk that current trade tensions escalate further is the greatest near-term threat to global growth.

Oman posted double-digit fiscal and current account deficits over the past few years.

The government has announced big ambitions to transform the economy by diversifying away from oil.

The government has announced big ambitions to transform the economy by diversifying away from oil.

MENA countries need to create 25 million new jobs over the next five years.

The good news of this recovery this year is that the outlook is positive for both oil-importing countries and oil-exporting countries.

Middle Eastern oil exporters had to constrain government spending in recent years after crude prices slid in 2014.

IEA in the Oil 2018 envisaged that excess global refining capacity would grow. but Asian refiners need more crude.

Iran wants to see $60 a barrel to rein in shale producers. while Saudi Arabia’s budget needs $70.

The focus has been on gas that has begun flowing from Egypt’s Zohr gas field. the largest in the Mediterranean.