The UAE has launched a National Summary Data Page, NSDP, becoming the first Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, country to implement the recommendations of the enhanced General Data Dissemination System, e-GDDS. The NSDP is a national data portal that serves as a one-stop vehicle for publishing essential macroeconomic data in both …
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The UAE is one of the most advanced digital economies in the world, landing in the top 20 globally and first in the Arab world, according to the latest report. The new edition of IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2018 released on Tuesday, showed the UAE moving up in the …
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Despite a pickup in economic growth rates around the world, the Arab world is not seeing a fair share of this increase, with growth rates not nearly enough to provide enough jobs for young people. According to Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), there are “big …
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As the U.S. sends thousands more troops to Afghanistan and ratchets up airstrikes, a new report from a U.S. military auditor suggests that the war is still at a stalemate, with signs of continued decline in Afghan government control. And the amount of basic information available to the public about …
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Gulf oil exporters are continuing to adjust to low oil prices and the overall growth in the GCC region is expected to bottom out in 2017 and growth is set to pick up pace from 2018, Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department said at …
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Leading UAE banks have reported robust improvement in performance with overall profitability and return on equity (RoE) higher in the third quarter of 2017, according to an analysis of key performance metrics by global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A & M). Almost all of the metrics applied by …
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The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies. To the surprise of some scientists, the White House did not …
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A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition was responsible for an “unacceptably high” 51 percent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year, according to a draft United Nations report seen by Reuters on Thursday. The draft report on children and armed conflict, which still has to be approved by U.N. …
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By James M. Dorsey A report charging Saudi Arabia with funding extremism in Britain puts both the kingdom and Prime Minister Teresa May on the spot. The report also potentially strengthens Qatar’s insistence that support of extremism should be tackled regionally and that demands by an anti-Qatari, Saudi-UAE-led alliance be …
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