‘Quota system’ in Kuwait development projects leads to losses, risks: Analyst

‘Quota system’ in Kuwait development projects leads to losses, risks: Analyst

By Majd Othman

KUWAIT: Development projects in Kuwait suffer from several obstacles that prevent the country from enjoying improvement and growth, in addition to its effect on the economic situation of the country that could be very negative in the future if project development remains almost frozen. Kuwait Times spoke to economic analyst Hajjaj Bou Khaddour and discussed with him different aspects related to the country’s development projects and strategies.

Bou Khaddour said the main obstacles facing Kuwait is parliamentary and governmental performance that does not give priority to these projects due to the “quota” system they adopt, which means distributing money and power among them and to groups they belong to.”Not only the quota system does not benefit the development process, it can be considered one of the biggest enemies and barriers to the country’s development. It is a serious problem for any country to rely on this working system,” he said.

“This is because the government’s priorities go away from development to please their groups of people. All representatives have no expectations and no work plan, which means their performance has nothing to do with development. Their only role is in consumption and depletion of resources, and they don’t care about