Shabbir is a senior lecturer in economics and manages the MSc Economics suite of programmes (MSc Economics, MSc Financial Economics and MSc Business Economics) in University of Huddersfield.
How Gulf states are coping with the new normal of low oil prices
Apr 27, 2016 08:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
The falling price of oil is beginning to have a real impact on the energy-fuelled economies of the Gulf. In 2014, after almost a decade of record highs, the price of a barrel of Brent crude began to collapse from a peak of...
Explainer: what is the ECB 'bazooka' and will it spur a eurozone recovery?
Mar 15, 2016 23:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The European Central Bank has introduced a slate of new measures to try and bolster growth in the eurozone. Some have referred to Mario Draghi, the ECB president, as bringing out his bazooka. Faced with the threat of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight