The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP), a multilateral development financial institution, estimates in its MENA Energy Investment Outlook 2021-2025, https://bit.ly/3nO69jw, which it launched today that overall planned and committed investments in the MENA region will exceed USD805bnover the next five years (2021–2025) – aUSD13bn increase from the USD792bn estimate in last year’s five-year outlook. The
More than 83 million people in 82 countries benefited from Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives’ (MBRGI) humanitarian and social projects in 2020, the foundation’s annual report has revealed. Amid the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, MBRGI, the region’s largest philanthropic foundation, carried out AED1.2 billion worth of humanitarian, social and developmental projects
Dubai CommerCity (DCC), the first dedicated e-commerce free zone in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), announced the launch of the second edition of ‘MEASA E-Commerce Landscape: B2C Products Edition’. Amna Lootah, Assistant Director General, DAFZA, and a Board Member at Dubai CommerCity, stated that the value of the e-commerce market will grow
In a step forward for women across the Middle East, the International Business Women’s Group (IBWG) has formed a formal partnership with the Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society. The new agreement has been created to help both parties progress with their shared aims of supporting and promoting professional women throughout the region. The partnership, signed in the form
The percentage of Emerging Market firms defaulting on debts due to the impact of the pandemic is expected to be lower than in many mature markets, according to Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI). While the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges that have affected all industries in some shape or form. Despite the continuing negative impact
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Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North and Turkey) region, has onboarded Middle East grocery retailer and food distributor T. Choithram & Sons to pilot the bank’s smartSCF digital Supply Chain Financing platform. Emirates NBD’s state-of-the-art smartSCF platform caters to the growing need for digitisation of supply chain management and