Kuwait Programme Papers

Shaping an Eco-Kuwait: From Policies to Practice
Alexandra Gomes, Asseel Al-Ragam and Sharifa Alshalfan, November 2025

A Bioenergy Blueprint for Kuwait: Regional Research Insights, Waste Valorisation, Feasibility and Policy Pathways
Jean H. El Achkar, October 2025

Waiting for a Home: The Price of Public Housing Delays in Kuwait
Suleiman H. AlBader and Khaled W. AlSabah, September 2025

Infertility in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Financial Burdens and Care-Seeking Behaviours
Mariam Behbehani, June 2025

The Legal Framework for the Right to Access Information and Digital Transformation in Kuwait: A Qualitative Study
Abdulrahman Alhajri, March 2025

Worldviews and Attitudes to Science in Kuwait: The Engagement Threshold Hypothesis
Martin W. Bauer, Mohammad Sartawi and Gordon Sammut, June 2024

Spatial Patterns and Urban Governance in Kuwait: Exploring the Links Between the Physical, the Socio-Economic and the Political
Nuno F. da Cruz, Dhari S. Alrasheed, Muneerah Alrabe and Abdullah al-Khonaini, April 2024

The Climate Change Risk Reduction Trap: Low Carbon Spatial Economic Restructuring and Disaster Risk in Kuwait
Viktor Rözer, Sara Mehryar and Mohammad M. Alsahli, May 2024

Greening Systems by Greening Religion: Eco-Islamic Values and Water-Energy-Nature Nexus Policies in Kuwait
Ganga Shreedhar, Davide Contu, Patricia Freitag, Aseel Takshe and Susana Mourato, March 2024

Kuwait’s Enduring Digital Divide: Socio-Demographic Characteristics Relative to ICT Access, Skills, and Outcomes
Fahed Al-Sumait and Cristina Navarro, December 2023

Kuwait’s Readiness for the Knowledge-Based Economy: An Exploratory Study
Bibi M. Alajmi, November 2023

Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion in Urban Kuwait: Towards An Urban Co-Designed Approach
Nazanin Shahrokni and Spyros A. Sofos, October 2023

Digital Accessibility Across Kuwait’s Software Development Landscape
Zainab AlMeraj, October 2023

Youth Citizenship Identities in Kuwait: The Role of Citizenship Education and the Kuwaiti Diwaniyas
Sam Mejias, Rania Al-Nakib, Abdullah al-Khonaini and Rana Khazbak, September 2023

A Greener Kuwait: How Electric Vehicles Can Lower CO Emissions
Andri Ottesen, Sumayya Banna, Basil Alzougool and Sadeq Damrah, August 2023

Locating the Housing Crisis in Kuwaiti State, Land and Society
Do Young Oh and Hyun Bang Shin, March 2023

Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Kuwait: Evidence from Time Series and Field Survey Analyses
Athanasia Stylianou Kalaitzi, Ahmad Al-Awadhi, Sulayman Al-Qudsi & Trevor William Chamberlain, January 2023

Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk of Hospitalisation in Kuwait
Abdullah Alibrahim, November 2022

Towards an Equitable Transport System in Kuwait: Understanding the Social and Cultural Context of Transport Accessibility
Muhammad Adeel and Reem Alfahad, December 2021

The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait
Deen Shariff Sharp, Abrar Alshammari and Kanwal Hameed, October 2021

Sustainability, Natural Capital and Climate Change in Kuwait
Giles Atkinson and Ayele Gelan, July 2021


Beach Clean-Ups and Other Civic Engagement for the Protection of the Environment in Kuwait
Nele Lenze, April 2021

Breaking Out of the Innovation Trap? Towards Promoting Private R&D Investment in Kuwait
Husam Arman, Simona Iammarino, J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo and Neil Lee, March 2021

Reclaiming Public Space in Kuwait's Residential Neighbourhoods: An Applied Policy-Oriented Approach
Alexandra Gomes, Asseel Al-Ragam & Sharifa Alshalfan, March 2021

Uncovering Progress of Health Information Management Practices: Evidence from Kuwait's Public Healthcare System
Dari Alhuwail, January 2021

Determinants of Diabetes in Kuwait: Evidence from the World Health Survey
Zlatko Nikoloski, August 2020

Reforming Wealth Distribution in Kuwait: Estimating Costs and Impacts
Steffen Hertog, July 2020

Utilising Applied Behavioural Research to Execute Subsidy Reform in Kuwait
Hessah Al-Ojayan, February 2020

Building the New Kuwait: Vision 2035 and the Challenge of Diversification
Sophie Olver-Ellis, January 2020


Characterising the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in Kuwait and the Gulf Region
Christian Siderius, Declan Conway, Mohamed Yassine, Lisa Murken & Pierre-Louis Lostis, December 2019

How Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pay their Portfolio Companies’ Executives? Evidence from Kuwait
Bader S. Alhashel & Sulaiman H. Albader, June 2018

Regulation of Healthcare Advertisements: Comparing Media Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Kuwait and the GCC
Mariam Alkazemi, April 2018

Urbanisation and Physical Activity in the GCC: A Case Study of Oman
Ruth Mabry, February 2018

Prospects for Climate Change Integration into the GCC Economic Diversification Strategies
Aisha Al-Sarihi, February 2018

Show us the Money: Oil Revenues, Undisclosed Allocations and Accountability in Budgets of the GCC States
Omar AlShehabi, September 2017

Ontology and Methodology in the Study of the Resource Curse
Michael Herb, June 2017

A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International 'Soft Power' Strategies and their Local Urban Dimensions
Steffen Hertog, March 2017

Treating the Oil Addiction in Kuwait: Proposals for Economic Reform
Hessah Al-Ojayan, September 2016

Rent Distribution, Labour Markets and Development in High Rent Countries
Steffen Hertog, August 2016


Markets Serving States: The Institutional Bases of Financial Governance in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Karen Young, September 2015