Some world leaders like Ramaphosa and Erdogan use the term genocide to describe Israeli actions in Gaza. Israel has also been accused of war crimes by rights organizations.

Some world leaders like Turkey's President Erdogan use the term genocide to describe Israeli actions in Gaza. Israel has also been accused of war crimes by rights organizations.

The 2023 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking placed the UAE among the world's 10 most competitive economies.

Energy, banking and financial services, and industrial sector companies are among the largest in the Middle East, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council region.

GCC countries employ close to 20 million foreign workers, who are subject to vastly different conditions and wags compared to the nationals.

Saudi Arabia, which has pioneered the development of smart cities in the region, plans to establish more than 200 smart cities.

Key global reports list Saudi Arabia's Riyadh and Jeddah among the world's least expensive cities for living. TRENDS finds out the cost of living in other cities of the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia has reentered into this year's Kearney FDI Confidence Index, which ranks the markets likely to attract the most investment in the next three years.

Arab universities are increasingly focusing on quality and research, and many of them are making efforts to internationalize their programs.

Saudi Arabia is investing $500 billion in NEOM, a future city in the northwest, expected to be a hotspot for tourism, tech, and innovation. It is also transforming the UNESCO heritage site, AlUla, into a key tourist attraction.

International Monetary Fund predicts economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa will fall to 3.2% this year from 5.4% in 2022, before rising to 3.5% next year.

The 2022 Corruption Perception Index says corruption is undermining democratic processes and fueling violence in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Young women in the MENA region are more likely to be in the workforce, while the GCC countries — particularly the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar — have seen advances in labor force participation, according to a PwC report published in December last year. However, they are yet to gain...

The region's biggest economy, Saudi Arabia, was projected to accelerate to 8.3 percent in 2022 before moderating to 3.7 percent and 2.3 percent in 2023 and 2024.

Although the remittances grew by an estimated 5 percent in 2022, they were lower than the 10.2 percent increase in 2021.

North Korea, Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, Syria and Venezuela present the highest commercial bribery risk, said the TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix 2022.

A survey published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia says poverty levels can reach 36 percent of the total population in 2024.

Goldman Sachs has recently projected that the supply of Lithium will begin to outpace demand from 2023 onward.

The Global Innovation Index ranks the countries on 81 indicators across seven categories, including Business Sophistication, Infrastructure and Technology Outputs among others.

Various IPOs raised nearly $4.8 billion in the GCC in the first five months of 2022 alone, which was higher than in Europe.

High inflation and the West's sanctions on Russia for its Ukraine invasion besides the supply chain disruptions caused by China's intermittent Covid-19 restrictions intensify the decline.

Many Gulf states, including the region's two biggest economies, raised key interest rates earlier this month after the US Fed hiked its key policy rate.

The Gulf region’s loan-to-deposit ratio fell by 160 basis points in the second quarter of 2022, due to higher customer deposits.

The UAE is China’s most important trade partner in the Arab world and responsible for 28 per cent of total non-oil trade between China and the region. The region’s second largest economy is also home to thousands of Chinese firms.

Saudi government policies like 15 percent VAT exemption on real estate deals and affordable housing programs are boosting residential real estate.

The 2022 Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index compares 44 retirement income systems against more than 50 indicators and benchmarks.

The world's richest countries have the highest happiness scores, which probably explains why Lebanon, facing its worst-ever economic crisis, ranks low in the MENA region.

According to the Digital Quality of Life Index by VPN provider Surfshark, Denmark has the best digital quality of life in the world.

Tunisia, the only democracy to remain a democracy after the Arab Spring, may turn authoritarian if a draft constitution published recently is approved.

Arab countries are constructing solar and wind energy plants with a total capacity of 73.4 gigatons, which is nearly five times the region's current renewable energy production.

What are the top constituents of stock exchanges spread across the GCC countries? Here’s our infographic.

Here’s a look at how the price of an Iftar meal compares to a standard meal eaten in moths other than Ramadan.

Some of the iconic real estate holdings developed by Taiba throughout Saudi Arabia suggest that the Kingdom is headed towards an unprecedented economic transformation.

Prices of crude oil have skyrocketed across the world, thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions placed on Moscow.

Of recent, Islamic banking has been getting quite a boost from governments and financial institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

In the UAE, and the wider Arab world, many women have been successful in upturning the prevalent prejudice that a woman's place is in the home.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Over the past four years, GCC members have seen billions of dollars being remitted to other countries.

GCC countries have been witnessing a varying degree of change when it comes to Consumer Price Index performance.

A large number of kits of the PCR test has been manufactured and used across the world in general and the GCC in particular.

In economically free societies, governments allow labor, capital, and goods to move freely.

Foreign exchange and gold reserves come in handy in many ways when a country is trying to ride out an economic crisis.

Here is a comparison between the top equity markets in the Middle East, and how they stack up against a couple of their global counterparts.

Over time, inflation has come to be defined as how much a currency has lost value over a specific period.

The most common way to quantify the economic health of a country is by calculating its gross domestic product (GDP).

The UAE and Saudi Arabia seem poised to see their respective fashion sectors double their revenues in the near future.

A number of Arab countries have scored quite well in the just-published 2021 edition of the World Happiness Report.

The economy of Lebanon is in crisis. Here’s a look at which countries it depends on for trade and aid, and how much.

It was nothing new when Facebook changed its name to Meta, and invited people to the Metaverse. TRENDS has curated a list of such companies.

Egypt and Algeria have the largest number of Nobel winners in the Arab world, while Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are yet to produce one.