Country Report
Qatar: Plans To Grow Despite Pressure
The world’s biggest LNG producer is finding ways to bypass a Saudi-led blockade—and even to turn the economic challenge in its favor.
Qatar
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Features
Benefiting From Diversity: Q&A With QInvest’s CEO Tamim Al-Kawari
As Qatar diversifies its economy away from oil revenues, QInvest CEO Tamim Al-Kawari says it sees strong growth potential across a range of industry sectors ranging from healthcare, agriculture and education to industrials.
Features
Business Unusual: Q&A With International Bank of Qatar’s Managing Director
Amid talks of a merger between is bank and two others, Omar Bouhadiba, managing director International Bank of Qatar (IBQ), talks about the domestic market, mitigating impacts of the blockade, banking innovations and what-if scenarios.
Features
MENA’s Big Tech Boom
High-speed 5G networks and Cloud data centers are giving digital efforts across the region a big boost.
Features
Mideast Markets Curb Appeal
Following a period of relatively subdued infrastructure and real estate activity, 2017 was a better year in the Middle East; and 2018 should record more improvement. Transport-related projects remain essential to the region’s growth, but the most crucial area remains ...
Features
New Realities, New Technologies
The Middle East is striving to adapt to rapid economic and social change—with some success.
Features
Qatar’s Revolutionary Independence
Qatar, cornered by neighbors in a blockade, has since become more economically diversified and self-sufficient—and as a result, more independent.
Features
Strength In Numbers: Q&A With Qatar National Bank CEO Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari
Qatar National Bank (QNB) CEO Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari says the bank’s sound economic fundamentals and regional diversification aspirations have helped it withstand the impact of Saudi sanctions on Qatar.
Country Report
Qatar Loosens Guest Worker Rules
Qatar plans to spend more than $200 billion on infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges, railways, and ports, and has loosened guest worker sponsor requirements to facilitate recruitment.
Country Report
Qatar: Road to Knowledge Economy Paved With Debt
Oil-rich Qatar is spending heavily on infrastructure, even as it goes deeper into debt, claimingthe massive spending is aimed at creating a knowledge-based economy.
News
Saudi Prince, “Minister of Everything,” Wields Power Behind Throne
<strong>Saudi Arabia</strong><br />
Known as the Minister of Everything, deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, the favored 30-year-old son of the geriatric king of Saudi Arabia, is a man on a mission.
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