GCC countries have been actively pursuing workforce nationalisation policies to reduce their reliance on expatriate workers and create sustainable employment opportunities for their growing local ...

Oxford Business Group has launched a new Impact Report exploring the evolution of Saudi Arabia’s banking sector amid the country’s economic transformation. Banking is playing an increasingly critical ...

Substantial public investment in a range of infrastructure projects has driven growth in Qatar’s construction and real estate sector in the decade preceding 2025. The development of several transport ...

Ghana’s insurance industry has been transformed in recent years by regulatory reforms, led by the National Insurance Commission (NIC). The commission has prioritised modernising the sector, as well as ...

Saudi Arabia’s ICT sector has already achieved notable success. As of 2022 it is the largest and fastest-growing market in the MENA region, with a value of SR154bn ($41.1bn). The scale of the ...

Qatar’s tourism sector has emerged as one of the country’s most dynamic drivers of non-hydrocarbons-based growth, building steadily on the visibility and global exposure generated by the 2022 FIFA ...

Qatar’s capital markets are currently going through a time of major new initiatives, with reforms and structural improvements rolling out. These target the widening and strengthening of the existing ...

Successive governments have long identified tourism as a promising avenue for Papua New Guinea to diversify its economy away from a reliance on extractive industries. PNG’s topography, biodiversity ...

Amid Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine and tensions in the Middle East, Taiwan Strait and elsewhere, global military expenditure increased 6.8% to reach $2.4trn in 2023 – the highest level ever ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is the agency mandated to assess and collect taxes in the country. The administration falls under the umbrella of the Ministry of Finance. • Present in Ghana for an ...

Indonesia has a large, complex and profitable banking sector. At close to 280m, Indonesia’s population is the fourth largest in the world, and the percentage of the population that are unbanked and ...

Saudi Arabia’s ICT and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors have emerged as central pillars of the Kingdom’s economic transformation agenda, reflecting the growing strategic importance of digital ...