- About 88 percent of the affluent people in the UAE have reset their life goals following the Corona pandemic, and...
The 'confidence gap' is more pronounced among the emerging affluent, according to Standard Chartered survey.
Volatility in financial markets and fear of poor returns on investments are the major causes of low confidence.
- This week's TRENDS Explainer Video focuses on top Arab economies in terms of trade balance in the year 2020.
One of the best ways to judge the strength of a country's economy is to look at its trade balance, or the difference between exports and imports
If exports surpass imports, the trade balance is surplus. If imports surpass exports, the trade balance is deficit
- As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian city of Agareb, Mabrouka Ben Ibrahim vowed to...
Yousra, 21, died in 2019 after being bitten by a mosquito that came from the toxic trash site, Ben Ibrahim said
Residents say rubbish dumped at the site, including dangerous industrial and medical refuse, has caused a string of diseases from cancer to vision problems and infertility
- Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land,...
Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in war-scarred Iraq
This year, Nineveh province has been Iraq's "most affected" by drought and exceptionally high temperatures
- Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is building a new capital, whose construction costs are already under a microscope.
The city, on the outskirts of Cairo, is forecast to cost around $45 billion, and is roughly the size of Singapore
The construction costs have raised questions about spending priorities in a country where one in three people live in poverty
- Rich countries stand accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at...
Rich countries accused of failing to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at risk of drought, rising seas, fire and storms
The European Commission said the deal has "kept the Paris targets alive".
- World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more people in Syria are in the grips of hunger...
Some 12.4 million people — almost 60 percent of the population — apparently do not know where their next meal will come from
This is said to be a 57 percent increase since 2019 and the highest number ever recorded in the history of Syria
- UAE officials "recognise reality", delegation member and House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said after talks with Dubai ruler...
Both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the number one oil exporter, have announced net zero carbon goals
Hoyer said the UAE's hosting of COP28 in 2023 shows it is committed to clean energy
- Lebanon's government, formed in September, has yet to take serious action to stop its downward spiral.
The price of essential foodstuffs has almost quadrupled in just one year, according to latest data from the Lebanese government
Inflation rate averaged 131.9 percent over the first six months of 2021, the World Bank has said





















