Catherine Putz SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Days after two suicide bombers killed more than 80 people amid a peaceful demonstration in Kabul, the country’s president said the Af-Pak relationship is Afghanistan’s biggest problem. In an interview with Pakistani media, President Ashraf Ghani agreed that terrorist groups, like the Taliban and al-Qaeda, are threats to the country but noted that …

Standard economic theory says that taxation reduces productivity. If you tax income, you reduce the incentive to work. If you tax capital gains, you reduce the incentive to invest, and so on. When you discourage useful economic activity, the economy becomes less efficient. But what if it were possible to impose taxes in a way that also increased productivity? That’s …

  Dubai / Emirates Business There are 183 hotel projects and 54,000 hotel rooms in the UAE pipeline, according to a new report. The hotel construction report by TOPHOTELPROJECTS prepared exclusively for The Hotel Show Dubai 2016 reveals that the majority of the new hotels are expected to open before 2020. The busiest years are forecast to be 2017 (56 …