World Bank rates Dubai Municipality 12th in international competitiveness
Dubai Municipality has emerged as the 12th government organization worldwide for the year 2012 in terms of international competitiveness as rated by the World...
How Will OPEC Output Cuts Affect the Middle East
OPEC is the organization responsible for regulating at least half of the world's oil output, and as such has become significant in recent years,...
Brands need to be meaningfully different and relevant
Contrasting consumer expectations and needs – especially within different cultural contexts – means all brand communication strategies must and will vary according to the...
International monetary system in 2030: Three future scenarios
Revision to regionalism, G2 rebalancing, and reconciling a two-speed world
As the euro debt crisis spreads with wide ranging implications across the globe, a new...
Why the Middle East Is Betting on a Solar Future
Just how cheap has solar energy gotten? To give you an indication, Middle Eastern countries from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates are...
13 Marketing Trends for Brands in 2013
The new 2013 year is almost here. As you have probably heard, 13 is a number that symbolizes many different things. In religion, 13...
Riding out the storm: the economic implications of Brexit
The UK’s decision to leave the EU is the biggest political shock of our lifetime. It has already led to considerable volatility on financial...
What We Must Do To Prevent a Global COVID-19 Depression
Without a vaccine or effective COVID-19 treatment, we could face continued infections and death until at least the end of 2020.
To prevent...
Dubai Year in Review 2016 – Plenty of Opportunities
While low oil prices weighed heavily on many of Dubai’s trading partners and neighbours, the emirate delivered a strong economic performance in 2016, buoyed...
Global Economic Weekly: Policy pauses and pitfalls
The latest report from BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, titled, "BofA ML Economics - Global Economic Weekly: Policy pauses and pitfalls, authored by the Global Economics Team...
Global property sales for the last three months of 2008 down...
Dubai saw sales volume more than double in 2008
Middle East Q4’08 property sales down 62% over Q4’07
Real Capital Analytics, Inc. (RCA) is an independent...
Introducing BRI and its Impact on the Power Industry
In early May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed a total of 28 heads of state to Beijing to celebrate the so-called 'belt and road'...
Oversupply with commercial properties in Dubai
Rents expected to drop further
According to the Jones Lang LaSalle's ‘Dubai Real Estate Market Overview' report last month, Dubai's current stock of office space...
Pros and cons of investing in real estate, stock market
Nowadays investing in the stock market is a very popular topic. There are a lot of questions that a beginner investor may ask -...
Slump in Oil Prices and Coronavirus Outbreak: Global Recession Seem Inevitable
At the start of this week, a global recession seems as the most probable scenario for the world's economy in 2020.
Stocks around the world...
2016 Dubai Property Buyers Profile: End-users who prefer smaller homes
A total of 13,500 apartments and 800 villas were added to Dubai’s residential real estate supply in 2015, and a further 22,000 apartments and...
Coronavirus-triggered Market Correction Could Hit Complacent Investors
Investors remain complacent about an imminent Coronavirus-triggered market correction of up to 10 percent, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent...
Sovereign Wealth Funds allocate new assets to private equity
20% of Sovereign Wealth Fund new assets allocated to private equity
Property and infrastructure are not the big SWF ‘alternative investment’ story
Major sovereign governments and...