UAE: Foreign cumulative investment hikes to USD 111 billion in 2015
UAE government announced that foreign cumulative investment of more than USD 100 billion in 2014 rose to USD$111 billion in...
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World Bank Puts Iran's Average Growth at 4.5% in 2016–18
World Bank Group in its latest analysis of Iran’s economy has forecast Iran’s economy to grow at an annual average...
Work underway on $1.5 billion Tema Port upgrade in Ghana
Construction work has begun on the new $1.5bn container terminal at the Port of Tema in Ghana at the start...
Egypt's economic growth rate up to 3.4% in Q1 of 2016/17
Egypt's economic growth rate registered 3.4 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of fiscal year...
New investment opportunities in the Egyptian market discussed
Egypt's president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with representatives from 27 regional and international investment funds in Cairo, in a meeting organized...
Housing Bank in Lebanon lowers rates: real estate market expected to get a boost
Banque de l’Habitat, a housing loans specialist, has announced it has lowered its interest rates from five to three percent....
Iran approves $11.8 billion of FDI post-sanctions
Iran approved the attraction of $11.8 billion in foreign direct investment during the 12 months to December 21. Of...
Lebanon to become an oil & gas producing country
"Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the...
2016 a transitional year for Egypt
The acceleration of a long-awaited reform programme and continued economic recovery, particularly in the retail and energy sectors, made 2016...
Qatar GDP to rise to 3.4% in 2017: IMF
Qatar’s GDP is projected to reach 3.4 percent this year from 2.7 percent in 2016, driven by greater non-oil growth...
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