by Faro | Dec 18, 2018 | Employment, Human Resources, MENA, Social progress, U A E, Women at work, Youth employment
GULF BUSINESS Economy posted this enlightening article by Aarti Nagraj on how It will take the MENA economies “153 years to close the gender gap at the current rate of change” UAE tops MENA for wage equality, Arab region remains world’s least gender-equal The UAE has...
by Eyman | Aug 26, 2017 | Dubai, Economic Development, Gulf Cooperation Council, U A E
The UAE, after first announcing its intent back in July, has unveiled a $1.5 billion wholesale Dubai Food Park (DFP) to be spread over an area of about 4.5 million m². And it will be the first destination totally dedicated to serving the food sector in the Middle...
by Faro | Aug 25, 2017 | Construction, Consultants, Contracting, Environment, Green Buildings, Greening of the desert, MENA, U A E
Trending ambitious projects in the Gulf countries Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, Doha in Lusail, Qatar, Manama in Bahrain have always been competing one another for commercial limelight. These days despite all oil related exports revenues these have not been...
by Eyman | Jul 18, 2017 | Dubai, Electricity Generation Energy, Environment, Greening of the desert, MENA, U A E
According to Global Risk Insights, the MENA region saw over 2 GW of new solar capacity tendered in 2016, and 2017 looks to easily surpass this level as hundreds of billions of Dollars begin to flow into green energy in the Arab world. On April 6th, Middle Eastern...
by Faro | Jul 8, 2017 | Cities, Dubai, Economic Development, Education & Culture, Employment, Environment, Greening of the desert, Gulf Cooperation Council, MENA, Oil Production
Of all the achievements that Dubai could claim to have realised since or after the formation of the United Arab Emirates, is this semi-loony $1 billion project of Dubai’s Largest Indoor Theme Park that is not really such a loony one. It may however seem so at...
by Faro | Apr 25, 2017 | Agriculture, Business, Food Imports, International Trade, U A E
Early this week, all GCC media covered the latest move of the Government of the UAE banning all fruit and vegetable imports form selected countries. These happened to be those of the neighbouring Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen...
