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Kuwait Programme Papers

  • Shaping an Eco-Kuwait by Alexandra Gomes, Asseel Al-Ragam and Sharifa Alshalfan

    Shaping an Eco-Kuwait: From Policies to Practice

    Alexandra Gomes, Asseel Al-Ragam and Sharifa Alshalfan, November 2025

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  • A Bioenergy BluePrint for Kuwait by Jean H. El Achkar

    A Bioenergy Blueprint for Kuwait: Regional Research Insights, Waste Valorisation, Feasibility and Policy Pathways

    Jean H. El Achkar, October 2025

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  • Waiting for a Home by Suleiman H. AlBader and Khaled W. AlSabah

    Waiting for a Home: The Price of Public Housing Delays in Kuwait

    Suleiman H. AlBader and Khaled W. AlSabah, September 2025

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  • Infertility in Kuwait by Mariam Behbehani

    Infertility in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Financial Burdens and Care-Seeking Behaviours

    Mariam Behbehani, June 2025

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  • LegalFrameworkKuwait-500-707

    The Legal Framework for the Right to Access Information and Digital Transformation in Kuwait: A Qualitative Study

    Abdulrahman Alhajri, March 2025

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  • Worldviews and Attitudes to Science in Kuwait-500-707

    Worldviews and Attitudes to Science in Kuwait: The Engagement Threshold Hypothesis

    Martin W. Bauer, Mohammad Sartawi and Gordon Sammut, June 2024

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  • GovernanceofSpatialChange-500-707

    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

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  • TheClimateChangeReductionTrap-500-707

    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

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  • GreeningSystems-500-707

    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

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  • KuwaitEnduringDigitalDivide-500-707

    Kuwait’s Enduring Digital Divide: Socio-Demographic Characteristics Relative to ICT Access, Skills, and Outcomes

    Fahed Al-Sumait and Cristina Navarro, December 2023

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  • KuwaitReadinessKnowledgeBasedEconomy-500-707

    Kuwait’s Readiness for the Knowledge-Based Economy: An Exploratory Study

    Bibi M. Alajmi, November 2023

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  • EcologiesofBelonging-500-707

    Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion in Urban Kuwait: Towards An Urban Co-Designed Approach

    Nazanin Shahrokni and Spyros A. Sofos, October 2023

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  • DigitalAccessibility-500-707

    Digital Accessibility Across Kuwait’s Software Development Landscape

    Zainab AlMeraj, October 2023

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  • YouthCitizenshipIdentities-500-707

    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

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  • AGreenerKuwait-500-707

    A Greener Kuwait: How Electric Vehicles Can Lower CO Emissions

    Andri Ottesen, Sumayya Banna, Basil Alzougool and Sadeq Damrah, August 2023

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  • HousingCrisisKuwait-500-707

    Locating the Housing Crisis in Kuwaiti State, Land and Society

    Do Young Oh and Hyun Bang Shin, March 2023

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  • ExportDiversificationKuwait-500-707

    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

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  • NoncommunicableDiseases-500-707

    Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk of Hospitalisation in Kuwait

    Abdullah Alibrahim, November 2022

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  • Towards an Equitable Transport System-500x733

    Towards an Equitable Transport System in Kuwait: Understanding the Social and Cultural Context of Transport Accessibility

    Muhammad Adeel and Reem Alfahad, December 2021

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  • The Quiet Emergency 500x733

    The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait

    Deen Shariff Sharp, Abrar Alshammari and Kanwal Hameed, October 2021

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  • Sustainability, Natural Capital and Climate Change 500x733

    Sustainability, Natural Capital and Climate Change in Kuwait

    Giles Atkinson and Ayele Gelan, July 2021

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  • Women's Electoral Particiaption in Kuwait 500x733

    Women's Electoral Participation in Kuwait

    Zeynep N. Kaya, June 2021

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  • Beach Clean Ups 500x733

    Beach Clean-Ups and Other Civic Engagement for the Protection of the Environment in Kuwait

    Nele Lenze, April 2021

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  • Breaking Out of the Innovation Trap new 500x733

    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

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  • Reclaiming Public Space 500x733 png

    Reclaiming Public Space in Kuwait's Residential Neighbourhoods: An Applied Policy-Oriented Approach

    Alexandra Gomes, Asseel Al-Ragam & Sharifa Alshalfan, March 2021

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  • Uncovering Progress of Health Information 500x733 new

    Uncovering Progress of Health Information Management Practices: Evidence from Kuwait's Public Healthcare System

    Dari Alhuwail, January 2021

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  • DeterminantsofDiabetes-500-707-mg

    Determinants of Diabetes in Kuwait: Evidence from the World Health Survey

    Zlatko Nikoloski, August 2020

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  • Reforming-Wealth-Distribution-in-Kuwait-500-707

    Reforming Wealth Distribution in Kuwait: Estimating Costs and Impacts

    Steffen Hertog, July 2020

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  • SubsidyReforminKuwait-500-707

    Utilising Applied Behavioural Research to Execute Subsidy Reform in Kuwait

    Hessah Al-Ojayan, February 2020

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  • BuildingtheNewKuwait-500-707

    Building the New Kuwait: Vision 2035 and the Challenge of Diversification

    Sophie Olver-Ellis, January 2020

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  • RoleofDoctorsinKuwaitsHealthcareCosts-500-707

    The Role of Doctors in Kuwait’s Healthcare Costs

    Yousef Abdulsalam, December 2019

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  • WaterEnergyFoodNexus-500-707

    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

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  • BaderAlhashelSWFs-500-733

    How Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pay their Portfolio Companies’ Executives? Evidence from Kuwait

    Bader S. Alhashel & Sulaiman H. Albader, June 2018

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  • mariam-alkazemi-500-733

    Regulation of Healthcare Advertisements: Comparing Media Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Kuwait and the GCC

    Mariam Alkazemi, April 2018

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  • RuthMabryUrbanisation

    Urbanisation and Physical Activity in the GCC: A Case Study of Oman

    Ruth Mabry, February 2018

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  • AishaAl-SarihiClimateChange

    Prospects for Climate Change Integration into the GCC Economic Diversification Strategies

    Aisha Al-Sarihi, February 2018

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  • show-us-the-money

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

    Omar AlShehabi, September 2017

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  • Ontology and Methodology cover

    Ontology and Methodology in the Study of the Resource Curse

    Michael Herb, June 2017

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  • quest-for-significance

    A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International 'Soft Power' Strategies and their Local Urban Dimensions

    Steffen Hertog, March 2017

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  • treating-the-oil-addiction

    Treating the Oil Addiction in Kuwait: Proposals for Economic Reform

    Hessah Al-Ojayan, September 2016

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  • rent-distribution

    Rent Distribution, Labour Markets and Development in High Rent Countries

    Steffen Hertog, August 2016

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  • kuwait-national-assembly

    The Origins of Kuwait’s National Assembly

    Michael Herb, March 2016

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  • markets-serving-states

    Markets Serving States: The Institutional Bases of Financial Governance in the Gulf Cooperation Council States

    Karen Young, September 2015

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