Business Features
Who is winning work in Iraq and Afghanistan?
- The reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq is a multi-billion dollar business. A profile of the companies that are cashing in.
- Iraq: Tuesday, March 02 - 2004 at 11:35
Dubai's great shopping mall race
- The Majid Al Futtaim Group and Emaar Properties are competing to build Dubai's best and biggest shopping mall.
- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, February 12 - 2004 at 11:23
How to boost foreign direct investment
- The Arab world currently nets less than one per cent of global foreign direct investment. How can the region increase the FDI flow?
- Wednesday, February 11 - 2004 at 09:55
Investment banks bring money home
- For three decades, Gulf investment banks did arguably more harm than good to the regional economy. The oil boom of the 1970s spawned a wave of banks and financial institutions whose main role was to channel money straight out of the region. Now, though, that trend is starting to change. By Richard Dean.
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, February 09 - 2004 at 10:15
Yachts the ultimate Arab status symbol
- Vast, luxurious and extraordinarily expensive, superyachts have become one of the Arab world's ultimate status symbols.
- Sunday, February 08 - 2004 at 12:20
The Microsoft future according to Bill Gates
- Can the world's mightiest software company stay on top? A look at Microsoft's long-term strategy, courtesy of an interview with chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates.
- Monday, January 12 - 2004 at 16:05
The rise of Abu Dhabi's Al Fahim group
- From modest beginnings, the Al Fahim family has built a billion dollar business. A success story, born in Abu Dhabi.
- United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, January 07 - 2004 at 12:12 |
Lifting the veil from Mideast finance
- The high price of secrecy. The region must become more transparent if it hopes to attract investment and grow.
- Saturday, December 20 - 2003 at 10:25
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