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Kuwait has a new ruler who now must fix its old problems
Business Standard
|December 18, 2023
Like his immediate predecessor, Kuwait's new ruler is taking over in his 80s and will be confronted with the same economy-hobbling political dysfunction that has for years doomed reforms.
17 December Like his immediate predecessor, Kuwait's new ruler is taking over in his 80s and will be confronted with the same economy-hobbling political dysfunction that has for years doomed reforms.
But there are differences in this succession as well as similarities, and how they play out will help dictate whether 83year-old Emir Sheikh Mishaal AlAhmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah can break the Opec member state free of its paralysis.
Fledgling efforts to reconcile the Arab Gulf's sole elected parliament with a prime minister's office filled by royal appointment have at least begun, and Sheikh Mishaal has indicated his support for bringing in fresh faces.
This story is from the December 18, 2023 edition of Business Standard.
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