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There is a quiet revolution taking place on the tarmac. While the world debates tariffs and trade wars, a different kind of economic architecture is emerging in the shadows of airport terminals; one...

Few relationships in the Indian Ocean economy carry the quiet depth of the one between Oman and Tanzania. Centuries before containers and free-trade agreements, dhows sailed from Sur and Suhar on the...

There are moments in a country’s economic journey when numbers stop being mere statistics and start becoming signals of structural change. Oman’s special economic zones, free zones and industrial...

The World Bank’s April 2026 Economic Update for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan arrives at a moment of acute uncertainty. A conflict centred around the Gulf has effectively...

India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 and Oman Vision 2040 are not identical projects, but they are unusually compatible. India’s ambition is to become a developed nation by the centenary of its...

Oman’s development story over the past five decades is, by any reasonable measure, a remarkable one. A country that in 1970 had fewer than ten kilometres of paved road has built a modern state with...

There is a quiet revolution underway along the Sultanate of Oman’s land borders. It does not involve speeches or summits alone—it is being built with asphalt, concrete, and cross-border customs...

Consider the world as it stands today. The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil supply flows, has in recent tensions seen severe disruption. Maritime traffic that once...

Every day, approximately twenty million barrels of crude oil transit through a single waterway thirty-four kilometres wide and sixty metres deep. That volume represents roughly one-fifth of global oil...

Start with the numbers. By the end of the second quarter of 2025, Oman’s foreign direct investment (FDI) stock reached RO 30.279 billion, a 12.8% year‑on‑year rise, according to the National...

If you want to understand the new world economy, stop staring only at stock charts and start watching shipping risk. When risk rises, money moves. In today’s trade environment, insurance premiums,...

Some nations inherit geography; Oman inherited a vocation. Long before “globalisation” became fashionable, Omani seafarers were stitching together the Indian Ocean economy — from East Africa to...

In a world where trade routes can change overnight, investors are no longer chasing the cheapest address. They are chasing the most reliable one. When risk rises — through shipping disruptions,...

India is no longer “the next big market”. It is the market that every serious trade strategy must orbit. That is why two agreements reached within weeks of each other deserve Oman’s full...

Davos has always been a temperature check on the global economy: not because one summit decides outcomes, but because it reveals what investors, policymakers and leaders will do next. The World...

Oman has never lacked ambition. What separates countries is not the ability to describe a destination, but the ability to build the road — with discipline, speed and trust. The Eleventh Five-Year...

The Cabinet’s approval to establish the Oman Global Financial Centre (OGFC) should be read as an economic decision, not a ceremonial one. Oman is signalling that the next stage of diversification...

Oman’s identity was shaped by trade long before modern borders and balance sheets. For centuries, Omani merchants linked East Africa, the Gulf and India through routes built on trust, safe passage...

You know the moment when a country’s economic story stops being a promise and starts becoming a pipeline — projects that break ground, exports that ship on time and citizens who find skilled work...

Oman and India have signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in Muscat, a milestone that deserves recognition. But the bigger story starts after the signing. A trade agreement...