Asians can expect to earn 26 per cent less than Westerners according to the Gulf Business Salary Survey.
Asians in the Gulf are taking home over a quarter less than Westerners, with HR experts controversially saying wages ‘link back’ to home countries.
Regional M&A activity spiked in 2012 as global investors looked outside the West.
The Gulf Business 2013 Salary Survey reveals which countries reward CEOs with the biggest pay packages.
Gulf Business brings you the top 10 banks in the UAE that made the largest profits last year.
As its oil reserves dwindle, is Oman’s focus on diversification and privatisation enough to keep the economy ticking?
As airlines and airports in the GCC expand, air traffic management is becoming a serious concern, say experts.
Two years after Qatar won the right to host the World Cup, little work on many of the big projects has actually started.
Peter Bidenko, regional executive creative director, Leo Burnett UAE, Kuwait and Lower Gulf and Ali Ali, independent director, lead the debate.
Queues of investors have formed outside the offices of real estate developers in scenes that recall the emirate’s boom days before 2008.
Even as overall investor sentiment rises in the Gulf, gold has lost none of its shine.
Danger is second nature to these professionals.
Greater investments in sustainability are urgently required, say experts.
A list of the most successful Gulf companies to take the international business world by storm.
It’s important to look to both the past and the future when leading in 2013, writes leadership expert Tommy Weir.
“All countries in the Arabian Gulf are talking to us,” says one executive in the unmanned aerial vehicle business.
Gulf Business speaks to Obaid Al Qahash, CEO Parzel.
Transparency and ethics will be focus points in 2013, writes Peter Beynon, regional director, ICAEW Middle East
Nearly half of the region’s employees cannot stand their boss.
Dubai opens its boat show as survey reveals 60 per cent of world’s top 100 superyachts are in the Middle East.
Gulf Business reveals the top 10 wealthiest names from the world of sport.
With regional economies expanding rapidly, firms in the region struggle to hold on to their best employees.
Once again, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud tops the Gulf Business power list. In an exclusive interview, he opens up to Aarti Nagraj on how it felt to double his share price in 2012 and why he fears for the Saudi unemployment timebomb.
Could the UAE central bank’s initiative to impose mortgage caps in the country have a negative impact on the fledging real estate revival?
The world’s largest companies by market capitalisation.
Swiss, Australian and South African currencies may face weakness in 2013, says Matein Khalid, fund manager in a royal investment office.
Negin Fattahi-Dasmal, founder and CEO of The Grooming Company, explains the success behind the region’s first male-only grooming parlour.
Rajesh Nagjee, CEO of Chrysalis Management Consultancy, lists five ways to reach the pinnacle of a business career.
The emirate is sensitive to the issue given its geographical positioning to countries targeted by sanctions.
Gulf Business speaks to Robert Jones, managing director of Coffee Planet.