The UAE has received high ranking from World Economic Forum in the recent Global Competitiveness Report. There are many performance indicators on which the competitiveness of an economy is decided, including infrastructure, goods market and labour market efficiency. Two of the key indexes in which the UAE has been making huge strides is education and technological readiness. These go ...

  With its insults, lies, rancor and racism, this has been the most depressing election cycle of my lifetime. So it’s worth reminding ourselves that there’s plenty of good news for the U.S. of 2016, and that the good news probably far outweighs the bad. When historians look back on our era, the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump campaign probably will be ...

  A crumpled instant-noodle bowl ground into the mud is an unlikely symbol of economic vitality. But during China’s boom years those bowls were as ubiquitous around Chinese construction sites as the high-rise cranes above them. That was no accident. For millions of Chinese workers, instant noodles were the convenient meal of choice, available for a few cents in every ...