GCC countries have been actively pursuing workforce nationalisation policies to reduce their reliance on expatriate workers and create sustainable employment opportunities for their growing local ...

How is Boursa Kuwait safeguarding the stability of the local exchange against disruptive global trends? KHALED ABDULRAZZAQ AL KHALED: Boursa Kuwait is very aware of many of the disruptive effects of ...

Oxford Business Group has launched a new Impact Report exploring the evolution of Saudi Arabia’s banking sector amid the country’s economic transformation. Banking is playing an increasingly critical ...

Kuwait is advancing reforms under New Kuwait 2035 to diversify its economy beyond hydrocarbons. Governance changes, infrastructure investment and financial sector reforms are supporting private sector ...

Qatar’s capital markets are currently going through a time of major new initiatives, with reforms and structural improvements rolling out. These target the widening and strengthening of the existing ...

Substantial public investment in a range of infrastructure projects has driven growth in Qatar’s construction and real estate sector in the decade preceding 2025. The development of several transport ...

Qatar’s tourism sector has emerged as one of the country’s most dynamic drivers of non-hydrocarbons-based growth, building steadily on the visibility and global exposure generated by the 2022 FIFA ...

Ghana’s insurance industry has been transformed in recent years by regulatory reforms, led by the National Insurance Commission (NIC). The commission has prioritised modernising the sector, as well as ...

Saudi Arabia’s ICT sector has already achieved notable success. As of 2022 it is the largest and fastest-growing market in the MENA region, with a value of SR154bn ($41.1bn). The scale of the ...

Successive governments have long identified tourism as a promising avenue for Papua New Guinea to diversify its economy away from a reliance on extractive industries. PNG’s topography, biodiversity ...

The government of Ghana has been steadily developing the country’s tourism sector in an effort to make it the main foreign exchange earner for the country and improve the livelihoods of rural ...

On how social media and AI are reshaping advertising and marketing In which key ways is Saudi Arabia’s advertising segment evolving, and what standout opportunities does this present? ELDA CHOUCAIR: ...