Special report: Telecoms - Regional competition grows
The era of state-monopoly operators will come to an end this year when the region’s last mobile phone monopoly market, Qatar, opens up to private sector competition.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Baghdad's plans to rebuild economy
After five years of insurgency, Iraq still faces massive challenges, but there are signs that it has turned a corner at last.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Construction - Marine projects drive market
After years without significant investment in ports, many of the region’s governments are now prioritising the development of their port infrastructure.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Tourism & Real Estate - Visitor numbers slide
Dubai has some of the world’s most expensive hotel room rates, with charges for one night averaging $370 in October 2008. But with most of the world falling into recession, such prices could be hard to...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Major projects - Reshaping regional cities
The region’s major cities are responding to unprecedented population growth by drawing up masterplans which will reshape the region’s urban centres, from Abu Dhabi to Algiers.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Iraq - Writing off the past
Iraq’s ability to provide security remains one of the biggest obstacles to attracting foreign investment to help with its long-term reconstruction plan.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Iraq - Political stalemate delays projects boom
Even prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 to oust Saddam Hussein, international firms were sizing up potential business opportunities in the post-war reconstruction effort
View ArticleSpecial Report: Iraq - The reconstruction effort gets under way with new...
With a new government in office, a detailed national development plan in place and international oil companies already making progress in lifting oil production, 2011 should see the rebuilding of Iraq...
View ArticleIraq Special Report: Kurdistan leads project development
Iraq ideally holds great promise for investors and contractors
View ArticleIraq: Baghdad reviews its energy strategy
The power crisis is the clearest symbol of the Iraq government’s failure to carry out much-needed infrastructure investment
View ArticleIraq: Factional friction poses threat to security
At MEED’s Iraq Energy Projects conference held in Dubai in February, gas was high on the agenda
View ArticleUniting against a common enemy
Nouri al-Maliki’s position became untenable as allies lost patience with reaction to Islamist advance
View ArticleIraq: Economic fallout from jihadist advance
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has taken on the leadership of Iraq at a critical time
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