Kuwait-Currency-800-600 — Kuwaiti Currency.

This project brings together Kuwait University and LSE to work on a collaboration that aims to identify methods of applied behavioural research through which Kuwait’s government can successfully implement sustainable economic reform.

The project analyses why the current government subsidies are unsustainable, Kuwait’s sovereign wealth, economic diversification, the long-term trends in oil price, the demographic factors, then assesses the likelihood of long-running and recording fiscal deficits.

The project also studies the rate of progress at which Kuwait’s government is implementing reforms and compares it to other states, both regionally and globally, who have successfully implemented subsidy reform. The project aims to identify the obstacles that inhibit citizens, parliament and Kuwait’s government from efficiently adopting subsidy reform compared to other countries, ultimately identifying methods of capacity building in the context of applied behavioural research.