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
Past Publications
- The Reconstruction of Post-War Kuwait: A Missed Opportunity?
Sultan Barakat and John Skelton, November 2014 - Saudi Islamists and the Arab Spring
Stephane Lacroix, May 2014 - Qatar ‘Rises Above’ its Region: Geopolitics and the Rejection of the GCC Gas Market
Jim Krane and Steven Wright, March 2014 - Constructing a Viable EU–GCC Partnership
Christian Koch, January 2014 - Mission Impossible? Genuine Economic Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Duha Al-Kuwari, September 2013 - Second Generation Non-Nationals in Kuwait: Achievements, Aspirations and Plans
Nasra M. Shah, August 2013 - The Private Sector and Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Steffen Hertog, July 2013 - Saudi Arabia and Jordan: Friends in Adversity
Neil Partrick, July 2013 - Kuwait's Political Impasse and Rent-Seeking Behaviour: A Call for Institutional Reform
Fahad Al-Zumai, June 2013 - The Right to Housing in Kuwait: An Urban Injustice in a Socially Just System
Sharifa Alshalfan, May 2013 - National Policies Towards Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe: A Comparison of France, Germany and Italy
Mark Thatcher, April 2013 - Economic Diversification in GCC Countries: Past Record and Future Trends
Martin Hvidt, January 2013
- The GCC States: Participation, Opposition and the Fraying of the Social Contract
J.E. Peterson, December 2012 - The Difficult Development of Parliamentary Politics in the Gulf: Parliaments and the Process of Managed Reform in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman
Greg Power, October 2012 - Western Policies Towards Sovereign Wealth Fund Equity Investments: A Comparison of the UK, the EU and the US
Mark Thatcher, August 2012 - The Qatari Spring: Qatar’s Emerging Role in Peacemaking
Sultan Barakat, July 2012 - One Blood and One Destiny? Yemen’s Relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council
Edward Burke, June 2012 - Kuwait and the Knowledge Economy
Ian Brinkley, Will Hutton, Philippe Schneider and Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, April 2012 - Basra, Southern Iraq and the Gulf: Challenges and Connections
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, February 2012 - The State of E-Services Delivery in Kuwait: Opportunities and Challenges
Hendrik Kraetzschmar and El Mustapha Lahlali, January 2012 - The GCC: Gulf State Integration or Leadership Cooperation?
Neil Partrick, November 2011 - How to Spend It: Resource Wealth and the Distribution of Resource Rents
Paul Segal, October 2011 - The Islamic Republic of Iran and the GCC States: Revolution to Realpolitik
Stephanie Cronin and Nur Masalha, August 2011 - Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Gulf: An Assessment
Gawdat Bahgat, July 2011 - Labour Immigration and Labour Markets in the GCC Countries: National Patterns and Trends
Martin Baldwin-Edwards, March 2011 - Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait
Laura El-Katiri, Bassam Fattouh and Paul Segal, January 2011 - Social Stratification in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Nora Ann Colton, January 2011
- Monarchy, Migration and Hegemony in the Arabian Peninsula
John Chalcraft, October 2010 - Contemporary Socio-Political Issues of the Arab Gulf Moment
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, September 2010 - Gulf State Assistance to Conflict-Affected Environments
Sultan Barakat and Steven A. Zyck, July 2010 - Volatility, Diversification and Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Miklos Koren and Silvana Tenreyro, June 2010 - Challenges for Research on Resource-Rich Economies
Guy Michaels, March 2010 - Persian Gulf – Pacific Asia Linkages in the 21st Century: A Marriage of Convenience?
Christopher Davidson, January 2010 - Energy and Sustainability Policies in the GCC
Steffen Hertog and Giacomo Luciani, November 2009 - Gulf Security: Changing Internal and External Dynamics
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, November 2009 - Nationalism in the Gulf States
Neil Partrick, October 2009 - Gender and Participation in the Arab Gulf
Wanda Krause, September 2009 - The Development of Islamic Finance in the GCC
Rodney Wilson, May 2009 - Governing Markets in Gulf States
Mark Thatcher, March 2009