VIP INTERVIEWS
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Husameedin Al Madani
Saudi Arabia
Director General, National Center for Performance Measurement (Adaa)
“We are working closely with public entities to measure their progress in implementing the programs and initiatives that help them attain their objectives to create a culture of transparency and accountability in public entities.”
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Dr. Jean-Marc Ricca
Nigeria
Managing Director, BASF
“We do not anticipate that the election will disrupt the business environment significantly.”
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Salem bin Ashoor
UAE, Abu Dhabi
Chief Representative & GM, BP UAE
“We hope to show how private sector partnerships with the government can add a positive angle.”
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Paul Gbededo
Nigeria
Group Managing Director, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN)
“Our share price more than doubled over the last year.”
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Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
UAE, Abu Dhabi
Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Mubadala Investment Company
“With our increased exposure to the technology sector, we expect to deploy capital in high-potential sectors. We will make strategic investments to position ourselves at the leading edge of these sectors.”
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ENERGY
Focus: Five countries in definition deadlock
Caspian: Sea or Lake?
If the Caspian Five—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan—cannot agree on whether the Caspian is a sea or a lake, how can they agree on anything else?
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TELECOMS, IT & MEDIA
Focus: Emerging market film industries
Top 4 for Films: 2018
Piracy, lower budgets, and competition have all taken their toll on film industries, but they have also boosted creativity and ingenuity.
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ECONOMY
Focus: Dealing with Mexico’s cartel catastrophe
Violent Crime on the Rise
An old expression states that if you steal USD100 you go to jail, but if you steal USD1 million, you negotiate. The same looking-glass logic seems to apply in Mexico, its multinational drug cartels a brutal economic force in their own right.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
TOURISM
Focus: Tourism & the Greek Economy
Islands in the Sun
Greece tourism arrivals grew by over 10% in 2017.
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TOURISM
Focus: World Tourism Forum Boosts Ghana Hospitality
Black Star Rising
Ghana has so far struggled to reach the top of visitors’ bucket lists as a holiday destination, but hosting the World Tourism Forum in 2017 went some way to kickstarting its tourism industry.
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ENERGY
Focus: Protests Over Potential Tesla Partner
Lithium Battles
The battle for resources will be as fierce for the green economy as it has been for the hydrocarbon trade.
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ENERGY
Focus: Puerto Rico investment in renewables
A New Hope
Investors have been flocking to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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ECONOMY
Focus: Fighter jets for a cup of joe
Jakarta-Moscow Barter Arrangement
In a creative response to western sanctions, one on weapons and the other on certain agricultural products, Russia and Indonesia have struck a deal bartering fighter jets for coffee and palm oil.
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DIPLOMACY
Focus: Kenyans vote in tense elections
Cease and Devolve
As voters go to the polls in one of the most contested elections in Kenyan history, much more than half-century old personal rivalries is at stake.
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