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Doing Business 2020: Qatar’s Ambitious Reforms Improve its Ranking
Qatar embarked on an ambitious
program to improve its business regulations, earning it a spot in the top 20
global business environment improvers, according to the...
Doing Business 2020: GCC States Implement Record Number of Business Climate Reforms
Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) carried out a record new 35
reforms to improve the ease of doing business for their domestic enterprises,
according...
Landmark labour reforms signal end of kafala system in Qatar
Qatar has
announced sweeping reforms to its labour market, with a view to ending the kafala system and
marking a momentous step forward in upholding the...
Why is Iran meeting with Arab Gulf States?
KSA and UAE
differences on Syria and Yemen: Reasonable Differences or a Clash?
How the Media
Created an Impression of a Major Rift and Widened Misunderstandings
In recent
months,...
Undestanding the Gulf States: The European Perspective
Mitchell Belfer is President of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre, a
Rome-based organization that is engaged in building political and economic
bridges between European countries and the...
Gulf wealth: All that glitters is not gold
Little suggests that fabulously wealthy Gulf states and their Middle
Eastern and North African beneficiaries have recognized what is perhaps the
most important lesson of this...
Diverging Gulf responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang ripple across Asia
Recent diametrically opposed responses to repression of Muslims by
China, India and other Asian countries highlight deep differences among Gulf
states that ripple across Asia.
The different...
UNWTO and Barça Innovation Hub Launch Global Sports Tourism Start-up Competition
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in collaboration with Barça Innovation Hub (BIHUB) and with the support of the Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC), has...
Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker
It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively
shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf
state as...
Eyeing UK soccer clubs: Gulf buyers come with baggage
The bitter Gulf rift
between Qatar and its Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led detractors could spill
on to the pitches of English soccer.
A flurry of reports
suggest...