Navanti’s data collection and analysis are based on networks of on-the-ground researchers from all walks of life: journalists, academics, and humanitarian workers, to name a few. Our analysts also keep abreast of open source reports to inform their work. Below, these analysts have summarized and contextualized the most important articles they have read over the past month.
As GCC economies seek to diversify and attract foreign investment through creation of global hubs of technological innovation and international commerce, COVID-19 may provide a lesson that such strategies could lock them in to the risks of associated with globalization, urbanization, and climate change.
During the last six months, Iraq’s government has been under immense pressure due to simultaneous crises: social unrest, a dysfunctional and corrupt government, the growing spread of the coronavirus, and economic ruin.