Following an article published today in The Economist entitled “Saudi Arabia: Out of the Comfort Zone“, I couldn’t help feeling out of my comfort zone reading the simplification of its arguments in relation to the socio-economic challenges being cited. As an avid reader of The Economist, and a contributor to The Economist Intelligence Unit, readers of… [Read more…]
June 22, 2011
The Future is Yours; The Future is Digital LONDON, By Tatjana de Kerros | iloubnan.info – June 21, 2011 http://www.iloubnan.info/en/actualite/id/63190/titre/The-Future-is-Yours;-The-Future-is-Digital “A New Tech Bubble…Perhaps, but not in Western Nations” Social media has transformed the manner in which we connect, network, access information and do business. It has shown it has as much the power to… [Read more…]
June 4, 2011
© InfoDev | World Bank From May 30th to June 3rd, infoDev has been hosting the 4th Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship in Helsinki. This event has been carried out as part of a joint program with the Government of Finland and Nokia on “Creating Sustainable Businesses for the Knowledge Economy”. Benefitting from a… [Read more…]
June 2, 2011
A First Step Towards Liberalization A giant leap forward in the liberalization process was achieved when Nestle announced last month that it would set up a direct sales and distribution network in Saudi Arabia. A move to further open the economy and gradually diminish an agency culture in the Kingdom has been expected since its… [Read more…]
May 5, 2011
Entrepreneurship and innovation has undoubtedly become a priority throughout the Arab world, with entrepreneurs taking center stage as the new catalysts for a new economic and social era. However, the spotlight has yet to focus on repeat offenders; or as they may be more familiarly known, serial entrepreneurs. How can serial entrepreneurs facilitate the development of… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
30th March 2011, Oxford Today, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2011 is starting in Oxford. Until Friday, a host of social entrepreneurs, scholars, innovators and thought-leaders will gather at one of the most historic and picturesque universities in the world. Oxford University has generated over the course of its history, twenty six British Prime… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
To shed light on the impacts of the changes which have been spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, the World Bank hosted today a forum discussion under the theme ‘Arab Voices and Views’. The panel brought together a cohort of thinkers, practitioners and change agents from across the region to discuss the aspirations… [Read more…]
March 18, 2011
Today, after the Friday prayers at 11am GMT, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah addressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a rare move to announce the implementation of new reforms and royal decrees. Among the most important economic reforms announced were the creation of more jobs in the public sector; increasing… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
© 2010 ASDA’A Burson-Masteller Arab youth Survey For the third year running, ASDA’A Burson-Masteller has released the 2010 Arab Youth Survey. The study focuses on the attitudes of Arab and expatriate youth, surveying 2000 participants aged 18-24 in ten Middle Eastern countries that include the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,… [Read more…]
March 16, 2011
Industrialization: Self-sufficiency or Intervention? The privatization and creation of market economies in post-communist Europe can be regarded as one of the most successful industrial transformations of the second-half of the twentieth century. With skyrocketing unemployment, and a demographic population surge; fast-forward twenty years, and most ex-USSR satellite states are members of the European Union,… [Read more…]
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