Qatar’s economy performed well despite blockade: Survey

Qatar’s economy has performed remarkably well despite the challenges of the blockade, according to a survey conducted by Qatar University. The study titled ‘Blockade on Business: A Survey of Qatar’s Financial and Industrial Firms’ focused on the industrial and financial sectors, using the best scientific research methodology, to identify the initial and ongoing effects of the blockade on the functioning of the companies, as well as their outlook for the future. According to the survey, the opinion of financial companies was more positive about the impact of the blockade than industrial companies, with 69 percent of financial companies stating that the impact of the blockade on business revenues was ‘neutral’ and, conversely, only 22 percent of industrial companies said their revenues remained the same as before the blockade.