The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has fallen nine places from 2015, to rank 31st out of 189 economies on the World Bank’s Doing Business 2016 rankings. The closely tracked index depicts the ease of doing business in a country through a selection of ten areas in the life cycle of a business. The UAE was…
A new study – the MBLM Brand Intimacy 2015 report – conducted to understand the emotional connect between consumers and brands has ranked Apple as the most ‘intimate’ brand in the UAE. Part of a global survey among 6,000 consumers and 52,000 brand evaluations in the US, Mexico and the Emirates, the report ranks Lexus, Samsung, Mercedes…
Survey ranked the UAE as among the top ten countries for migrants globally HSBC has ranked Dubai as the second-best city globally for expats looking to start a business, trumped only by Singapore, which has garnered the first spot. According to the bank’s “Expat Explorer 2015” survey, which examined the responses of 21,950 expats from…
Your wallet may not feel much lighter at the end of every month than it did last year, but Middle Eastern cities have become much more expensive to live in than they were in 2014. As per the 2015 Cost of Living Survey done by Mercer, cities in the region have shown a significant jump…
Abu Dhabi is the safest city in the Middle East & Africa region according to the Safe Cities Index published by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Doha, Kuwait City, Riyadh, Johannesburg and Tehran have also made it to the list. Although not a comprehensive analysis of the world’s cities, the Index focuses on 50 urban areas…
