Achieving the healthy development of the stock market is a critical issue that policymakers must address. Researchers at ANBOUND emphasize several key principles from a macro-policy perspective that deserve focused attention. First, policy design must take into account the actual needs of the market and the long-term development of the stock market

Despite Russia managing to salvage some of its interests in the country, Assad’s ouster reflects Moscow’s relative power decline in the Middle East. Thus, it is likely that in the short term, Russia will not be able to play a proactive role as it did in the past. Thus, it is expected that Russia will become flexible in its approach to Syria, de

The relation between Muhammad bin Salman and Saudi funding needs to be put in the context of a social and political pact made between his ancestor (King Muhammad ibn Saud) and influential Muslim cleric Muhammad Abdul Wahhab in the 17th century. Muhammad ibn Saud (1727–1765), who controlled Al-Diriya area on the outskirts of Riyadh, the capital ci

set aside to spread Wahhabism and Salafism across the world. Between 1982 and 2005, an official record shows that the Saudi regime under King Fahd spent over US$1 billion “on mosques, schools, preachers and teachers’ salaries, scholarships, and textbooks, which went toward at least 1,500 mosques, 200 Islamic centres, 200 colleges, and 2,000 sch

off the coast of Malaysia, in one of the busiest shipping channels in the world, after unloading its cargo in China. Thanks to its nearly empty state, a catastrophic spill was narrowly avoided, but the explosion resulted in several fatalities and released toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Pablo’s obscure ownership and poor maintenance mirrored the