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• Middle Eastern nations paying big bucks for an Olympics Medal

  28 août 2016 ( #Bahrain, #Corruption, #Developed Countries, #Emerging Markets, #Human Resources, #MENA, #Middle-East, #Qatar, #World )

  by Faro Whilst certain oil-rich countries got some medals as alleged in this CNBCprogramme as through importing African born elite athletes, we propose for this weekend, that other article of how the different countries earned their trophies. The devex...

• Which languages do most people want to learn?

  09 août 2016 ( #Arts and Humanities, #Higher Education, #Human Resources, #I T C, #International Conference, #Population, #Smart Technology, #Social Media )

  by Faro At a time of globalisation notably through its digital expression, there seems to be greater polarisation of languages around a handful few. In effect and despite of leaning on techno Hard & Software based direct translation systems, more and...

• Remittances of the Maghreb migrants

  31 août 2016 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Cultural Heritage, #Democracy, #Expatriate Manpower, #Mediterranean Sea, #MENA, #North Africa, #Population, #Tourism )

  by Faro Every summer of each year, droves of North African emigrant populations established in Europe pours on the ports and airports of the countries of the Maghreb. All year round however, Remittances of the Maghreb migrants could represent a non negligible...

• Travel between Real World and Virtual Reality

  14 août 2016 ( #Cross-border transportation, #Culture, #Developed Countries, #Digital Games, #Virtual Reality )

  Pikachu by Lin Petrie The New Augmented World . . . A lot of people probably haven’t heard of the company Niantic and that is understandable given that until recently it employed only 41 people. Almost everyone in the developed world, however, has heard...

• Algeria risk Bankruptcy in less than 5 years

  16 août 2016 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Governance, #International Trade, #MENA, #Oil and Gas, #Oil Price, #OPEC )

  by Dr A. Mebtoul World Bank vs Bank of Algeria on the depletion of foreign exchange reserves . 1 – The World Bank (WB) in a comprehensive report on the MENA region present finances dire straight as at end of July 2016, indicated that Algeria’s foreign...

• Engineered Bridging through the GCC’s

  24 août 2016 ( #Bahrain, #Construction Industry, #Cross-border Transportation, #Economic development, #MENA, #Saudi Arabia )

  by Faro Saudi Arabia has decided to directly connect its Eastern province mainland to its closest neighbouring island of Bahrain and peninsula of Qatar through road and railway bridges. The programmed Engineered bridging through the GCC’s could mean that...

• Here comes the Sun

  24 juillet 2016 ( #Arts and Humanities, #Cultural Heritage, #MENA, #Tourism, #U K )

  Off on our hols . . . Here comes the Sun. Just as it finally turned its face to Britain, I and many of my fellow Britons, will be off on our summer holidays overseas. Most of the trips are organised by travel companies although it is increasing easy to...

• Informal Meeting of OPEC in Algiers this September

  15 août 2016 ( #Oil & Gas, #Oil price, #Oil Production, #OPEC )

  by Dr A. Mebtoul Miracle solutions are not expected . . . The oil price fell to a level never reached in more than four years losing more than 60% as of 2014, though rallying slightly a month earlier; the Brent managing $47,19 and the WTI $44.72 whilst...

• Minerals vs. Oil & Gas Exports

  29 juillet 2016 ( #Algeria, #Budget Deficit, #Cheaper Oil, #Diversification of the economy, #Economic development, #Economic growth, #Environment, #International Investments, #International trade, #MENA )

  Iron and phosphate exports as alternatives to oil & gas? A TV show, that I would not name, on July 27, 2016, deeply shocked me. It involved few so called experts who claimed, without restraint that thanks to exports of phosphate and iron ore, Algeria...

• The US now has the Greatest Oil Reserves

  06 juillet 2016 ( #Big Oil, #Cheaper Oil, #Developed Countries, #Economic Development, #Employment, #Engineering, #Environment, #Growth, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #MENA, #Middle-East, #Oil & Gas, #Oil and Gas, #Oil price, #Oil Price, #Oil Production, #Oil supply and demand, #OPEC, #Saudi Arabia, #Shale Gas, #Shale Gas extraction, #U S A )

  As put by numerous MENA notably those of the Gulf Media, the US now has the Greatest Oil Reserves than Saudi Arabia or Russia, as per a new report. Norway’s Rystad Energy in a recent analysis of 60,000 fields worldwide conducted over a three-year period...

• Buildings with Sustainable Features

  28 juin 2016 ( #Bahrain, #Budget Deficit, #Buildings, #Carbon footprint, #Cheaper Oil, #Climate Change, #Construction, #Cultural Heritage, #Diversification of the economy, #Economic development, #Engineering, #Environment, #Green Buildings, #Greening of the desert, #Infrastructure projects, #Integration of Nature, #Landscapes, #MENA, #Qatar, #Saudi Arabia, #U A E )

  Sustainability all over the GCC . . . A Dubai-based developer company is looking to acquire land in Dubailand to start its sustainable and affordable residential project this summer. The project of to construct buildings with sustainable features such...

• Young people, employment and entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean

  14 octobre 2015 ( #Agriculture, #Climate Change, #Construction Industry, #Consultancy, #Diversification of the economy, #Economic Development, #Economic development, #Education & Culture, #Emerging Markets, #Employment, #Entrepreneurship, #Environment, #Europe, #Food production, #Forests and natural vegetation, #Forum economique, #France, #Francophonie, #Mediterranean Sea, #MENA, #Youth development )

  OCEMO programmes in the Mediterranean Region OCEMO (office de Coopération Economique pour la Méditerranée et l’Orient) is a research centre as well as a French think-tank organisation based in Marseille, France. It was set up in 2011 with the objective...

• Saudi Construction & More ... Boom

  31 juillet 2016 ( #Cheaper Oil, #Construction, #Construction Industry, #Contracting, #Economic development, #Economic growth, #Expatriate Manpower, #Greening of the desert, #MENA )

  KSA Trade Center Saudi Arabia’s Hotel construction boom . . . According to local media, the Saudi Construction & More Boom not only remain unabated , 2 years on from the oil price drop but is to the contrary getting to know some kind of spurt growth....

• Saudi Law change for better MOOCs

  26 juillet 2016 ( #Computing agility, #Culture, #Education, #Education & Culture, #Higher Education, #Information Technology, #MENA, #Online learning, #Saudi Arabia, #University Education )

  Ruwayshid Alruwaili published in University World News ( 15 July 2016 - Issue 00422) about how the Saudi Law change for better MOOCs is seriously envisaged. So, according to him : "Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are growing in size and quality...

• Desert Rose City

  20 juillet 2016 ( #Affordable Housing, #Budget Deficit, #Building material supply, #Carbon footprint, #Cities, #Climate Change, #Design, #Dubai, #Environment, #Green Buildings )

  Sustainable Desert Rose City . . . Time out Dubai and all the online and paper mass media reported yesterday that Dubai was about to launch the development of what is labelled a Desert Rose City; an eco-city spread like a field of giant pansies of 5 purple...

• Which direction for Oil prices ?

  23 juillet 2016 ( #Cheaper Oil, #MENA, #Oil & Gas, #Oil and Gas, #Oil price, #Oil Production, #Oil supply and demand, #OPEC, #Renewable energy, #Sustainable development )

  An article by Christopher Dembik, global head of macroeconomic research at Saxo Bank, and published on Tout sur l’Algerie's July 16th, 2016, in partnership with La Tribune covers oil prices issues by asking Which direction for Oil prices? . "For the first...

• MENA’s Olympic ambitions, if they were any ?

  17 août 2016 ( #Cities, #Climate Change, #Construction Industry, #Education & Culture, #Environment, #Greening of the desert, #Infrastructure, #MENA, #Middle-East, #North Africa )

  by Faro Whilst the games are on-going still, the BROOKINGS published this very educational article on Friday, August 12, 2016 and we reproduce it here for perhaps help in its wider exposure to the MENA region readers. It must be stressed that the MENA...

• Offshore Deals that deprive Africa of Billions

  25 juillet 2016 ( #Africa, #Algeria, #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Business, #Business Leaders, #Business Mergers and Demergers, #Corruption, #Finance and Investment, #Governance, #International Trade )

  Offshore Deals that deprive Africa of Billions . . . The ICIJ, producer of the Panama Papers has published an article written by Will Fitzgibbon on July 25, 2016. It is about those Offshore Deals that deprive Africa of Billions; commonly known thing by...

• Algeria’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Volatility

  10 août 2016 ( #Algeria, #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Budget Deficit, #Democracy, #Economic development, #Finance and Investment, #Governance, #MENA, #Monetary policies, #World )

  by Dr A. Mebtoul World Bank’s Report on Algeria’s reserves going down ? The World Bank released last July 2016 an alarming report on the Algerian economy, elaborating on Algeria’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Volatility continuing as a result of the durable...

• Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco

  21 juillet 2016 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Big Oil, #Climate Change, #Environment, #Fossil Energy, #Global warming, #MENA, #Middle-East, #O P E C, #Oil and Gas )

  A formidable article titled Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco and written by Nadia Prupis of Common Dreams was published on Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 which we took the initiative of reproducing here for the benefit of all. Please address your comments to Common...

• Kuwait close to 55° Celsius, Iraq @ 53.9°C . . .

  25 juillet 2016 ( #Air conditioning, #climate, #Climate Change, #Environment, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #HVAC, #Integration of Nature, #Kuwait, #MENA, #Middle-East )

  Sizzling Temperatures, outdoor Climatisation and Air Conditioning have always been quite a Dilemma for the Gulf Countries. With a view to know more about the Ozone Layer, successive symposiums have always been organized throughout the Gulf countries taking...

• Ways to Instantly Connect with Anyone

  30 juillet 2016 ( #Cultural Heritage, #Culture, #Democracy, #Developed Countries, #Economic development, #Education, #Education & Culture, #Employment, #Employment Conditions, #MENA )

  Dr. Travis Bradberry, a uthor of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and president of TalentSmart, world’s leading provider of emotional intelligence, wrote a piece that was published on the Huffington Post of July 23, 2016 about connecting with people. In fact,...

• Professional Expats exiting Qatar

  25 juillet 2016 ( #Budget, #Business, #Construction Industry, #Credit Control, #Doha, #Employment Conditions, #Expatriate Manpower, #Expatriate Worker Rights, #Expatriate Workers, #Expatriate Workers salaries )

  With the price of oil dropping, 2 years ago, restrictive budgeting generally was expected to end up with large numbers of professional expats exiting Qatar in a hurry. The ensuing despair of knowing that oil price course would most probably not budge...

• Challenge of diversification of Algeria's economy

  23 juillet 2016 ( #Algeria, #Democracy, #Economic development, #Economic Freedom, #Economic growth, #Governance, #International trade, #Mediterranean Sea, #MENA, #North Africa )

  Fix the current political industrial policies . . . At the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with Algeria having had a very mixed 2016 ranking, some officials seem to be still living in the utopia...

• What is "networked readiness"

  21 juillet 2016 ( #Computing agility, #Developpement economique, #Economic development, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #I T C, #Information Technology, #Infrastructure projects, #Internet, #MENA, #Technological development )

  - and why does it matter? Keith Breene wrote on July 6, 2016 a piece on the World Economic Forum dealing with what is "networked readiness" and how it is a key indicator of how countries are doing in the digital world. Below is the extensive version of...