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Jamie Etheridge

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Jamie Etheridge is the managing editor of the Kuwait Times and a former analyst for Stratfor.com. She has lived and worked in the Gulf region for much of the last 15 years and has been published in Financial Times (UK), Christian Science Monitor, Trends, Delayed Gratification and other publications. 

Gulf | Jul 18, 2019

Kuwait charts new path in changing region

Kuwait is carefully positioning itself among its Gulf neighbors as a regional trading hub looking to enter the Chinese and Asian markets, while maintaining its regional relationships and alliance with the West.

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Kuwait | May 27, 2014

Kuwait lags on development despite oil wealth

Kuwaiti plans for major infrastructure and development projects have failed to get off the ground, despite consecutive budget surpluses.

Sand covers the empty infrastructure at an abandoned housing project in Khairan, southern Kuwait March 6, 2014. With a youthful, well-educated population, strong relationships with both neighbours and world powers, and a strategic location on the Gulf, major oil producer Kuwait should be as dynamic a hub for the region as Dubai or Doha. But while others in the Gulf have powered ahead, attracting foreign investment and developing infrastructure, Kuwait has stagnated, frustrating the people of a country once
Kuwait | May 7, 2013

Kuwaiti Opposition Leader: 'We’re Not Asking to Overthrow Regime'

Musallam Al-Barrack, former MP and leader of Kuwait’s opposition, tells Jamie Etheridge that “Kuwait cannot afford to continue being an experiment for the failures of the government.”

Kuwaiti former member of parliament and opposition politician Musallam al-Barrak (L) greets supporters from his house in Andulos, after a ruling sentenced him to jail for insulting the emir, April 15, 2013. Barrak was sentenced to five years in jail on Monday for insulting the emir, his lawyer said, in a ruling that brought thousands of people to the streets in protest. The Kuwaiti criminal court found Barrak guilty of insulting Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah in a speech in October last year in which he app

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