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CFI.co Meets Dr Bernd van Linder
Dr Bernd van Linder has been Managing Director of Saudi Hollandi Bank (SHB) since May 2009. From 2006 to 2009, Dr van Linder served as the bank’s treasurer. He is a director of Saudi Hollandi Bank and of Saudi Hollandi
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CFI.co Meets Michel Accad: A Q&A Session with the CEO of Gulf Bank
Gulf Bank has made headlines and received several awards recently in part because of its performance in retail banking and governance. Could you outline for us the highlights of Gulf Bank’s performance this year? Gulf Bank is having a good
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The World Bank: Calling for an End to Poverty
With more than a billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 per day, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said this week that extreme poverty was “the defining moral issue of our time,” and he
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IPPC Report on Global Warming: Formidable Effort in Juggling with Fuzzy Numbers
In about 25 years the world will have used up its remaining “carbon credit” for the current century. Additional emissions will contribute to global warming beyond the tipping point of two degrees (C), the safety threshold used by most scientists
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WTO Forecasts Gradual Recovery Despite Cut in Trade Forecasts
World trade growth in 2013 and 2014 is likely to be slower than previously forecast. WTO economists now predict 2013 growth of 2.5% (down from the 3.3% forecast in April) and 4.5% in 2014 (down from 5.0%), but they say
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Cityscape Global 2013: Dubai Property Boom Set to Resume
After the clobbering it received during the Great Recession, the Dubai real estate market is now fully set to surge ahead. Tower cranes are once again swinging their long jibs leisurely through the city’s airspace while underneath apartment buildings, malls,
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Experts Debate Dubai’s Post-Recession Property Boom – Another Bubble or Sustained Recovery?
More than 750 senior real estate professionals prepped for Global Real Estate Summit and MENA Mortgage and Affordable Housing Congress Dubai, UAE, 11 August, 2013: With all sectors of the Dubai property market now gaining momentum in making a healthy
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree in St. Petersburg: G20 Hijacked by Syria Conflict
The world leaders gathered today in St. Petersburg for the G20 summit were supposed to discuss the slowdown of global economic growth and ways to combat tax evasion. This agenda has now been largely supplanted by developments in Syria and
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Small Egypt Farmers Catch the Eye of Agribusiness: IFAD Finds Key to Success
Twenty-odd years ago, groups of dispossessed farmers and unemployed youth were resettled on smallholdings in Upper Egypt. Authorities told the new arrivals to go till the desert soil. Plots – sandboxes really – of one to two hectares were duly
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Christopher Colford, World Bank: Competitive Cities Can Meet the Challenge of Job Creation
Focusing policies on competitive industries can provide jobs for the impoverished, hungry, restive urban millions As magnets for talent and crucibles of creativity, dynamic cities are the pacesetters for innovation in this era of relentless global competition. Vibrant metropolitan regions
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