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The Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB) contains about 100 pages of tables, charts and graphs detailing the world's oil and gas reserves, crude oil and product output, exports, refining, tankers, plus economic and other data. Read More

AFEX Renewable Energy is a policy assessment and benchmark tool that aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the investment climate for renewable energy development, and ranks the Arab region's ongoing progress.    The AFEX 2016 Renewable Energy edition reveals...Read More

This paper argues that Kuwait’s power and desalinated water generation inadequacies are as much a consequence of the low prices charged for Kuwait’s utilities as of the insufficiencies of its infrastructure. It uses a model-based methodology to compare the current...Read More

The paper was presented as background paper at the Seminar on “Sustainable Energy for Poverty Alleviation” organized by the Islamic Development Bank in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 20 May 2013. Fighting poverty in member countries is a priority strategic thrust of the...Read More

The main objectives and scope of this study include establishing a strategy and master plan to develop the trade of energy among Arab countries, and determine the trade-offs between export of electricity and/or natural gas. The objective was to address the adequacy of...Read More

OFID Quarterly January 2015 The year 2015 represents a watershed for international development, marking as it does the transition from the groundbreaking Millennium Development Goal to a new agenda - the highly anticipated Sustainable Development Goals. Here, the...Read More

In 2008, OFID launched its Energy for the Poor Initiative (or EPI). Since then, energy poverty alleviation has been OFID's primary strategic focus, with activities carried out at both an advocacy level and an operational level. Read More

OFID's grant assistance supports initiatives aimed at enhancing the livelihoods of people in non-OPEC developing countries. It does so by addressing challenges in areas such as education, energy poverty, food security, public health, water supply and sanitation, which...Read More

This book is a collection of speeches by Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and one of the world's leading advocates of energy poverty alleviation. The following collection of speeches made by Al-Hebrish...Read More

OFID Quarterly April 2015 In the quest for development that is truly sustainable, equitable and inclusive, nothing carries more weight that the capacity of humankind to shape and secure its own destiny. Here, the Quarterly examines the challenges of human capacity...Read More