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  • High Performance Government and MILE: Delivering on the Promise of eGovernment
     

    In a country with 185% mobile device penetration and some of the highest levels of Web usage in the world, how do Saudi officials deliver on the promise of eGovernment? Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Mahmoud, CEO of the Madinah Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (MILE), says it’s not an easy task, given the high expectations of […]

     
  • U.S. Commerce Secretary: Saudi Economy at an ‘Exciting moment as it moves to a more knowledge-based economy’ – VIDEO
     

    In her keynote address to the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Los Angeles, the Honorable Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, noted that the United States and Saudi Arabia have a strong trade and investment relationship which has tripled in the last decade. The more than 1,100 private sector and government leaders from both the […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry Cracks Down on Counterfeits In Boost to Consumer Protection
     

    This week, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) issued a press release on the Ministry’s Web Site that authorities had seized over 6,000 counterfeit cellphones. Looking to send a message to would-be counterfeiters and violators of consumer protection regulations, MCI authorities placed the forged phones in a pile then drove over them all […]

     
  • Al-Rabiah to Promote Saudi Auto Industry in U.S.
     

    The U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council (USSABC) issued a press release today to announce a new conference in Michigan to promote the Saudi auto industry. H.E. Tawfiq al Rabiah, the Saudi Minister of Commerce and Industry, is listed as a confirmed speaker of the event, which will “bring together senior Saudi Government officials, major Saudi industrialists, […]

     
  • Jadwa Investment – December 2012 Saudi Chartbook
     

    Jadwa Investment’s Saudi Chartbook for the month of December 2012 assesses a number of key aspects of the Saudi economy including the real economy, bank lending, banking indicators, inflation, trade, oil, exchange rates, the TASI (Saudi Stock Market), sectoral performance, and more. A summary of the report is provided for your consideration below, and the […]

     
  • Saudi oil sales to U.S. robust despite refinery upsets
     

    Saudi Arabia appears to be keeping its pledge to ensure global markets are well supplied with oil, barely letting up in shipments to the United States even after two of its biggest refining customers suffered crippling glitches. A Reuters analysis of U.S. import data shows sales to the world’s top oil consumer have dipped less […]

     
  • With customs union, GCC edges toward closer economic ties
     

    Saudi Arabia, the biggest Arab economy, is leading moves toward political and economic cooperation, which it believes would give the mostly Sunni-led monarchies of the Gulf more power to withstand any confrontation with Shi’ite Iran. Closer business ties within the GCC, which consists of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain and has […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia Weighs Annual Budget to Boost Clean Energy
     

    An annual budget for renewables would differ from the feed- in tariffs that Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Britain offered to spur solar and wind power in their nations. Germany was first to introduce the feed-in tariff in 2004 and became the world’s biggest market for solar because of the subsidy, which is paid for […]

     
  • Why Saudi Arabia’s Travel and Tourism Sector Is Ripe for Growth
     

    Saudi Arabia’s travel and tourism sector is poised for rapid growth in the next decade and beyond, and both Saudi and international corporations are looking to cash in on the opportunities ahead. A product of the changing economic and social landscape in Saudi Arabia, the coming tourism boom is likely to contribute to the Kingdom’s […]

     
  • Water Brings Green to Saudi Arabia
     

    Over the last two-and-a-half decades, a series of NASA’s Landsat satellites have captured these pictures of the growing agriculture industry in the northern reaches of the Syrian Desert in Saudi Arabia, not far from Jordan. Farmers use a technique called center-pivot irrigation to bring up water from below the desert floor to grow wheat and […]

     

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