Analysis

DEVELOPMENT

Saudi Construction Sector: A Sleeping Giant Awakes

• SUSTG Team
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• 6. 5. 2012

In 2010, the Government approved a five-year SAR 1.44 trillion (USD384 bn) development plan to develop human resources, education, housing and transportation infrastructure as the kingdom seeks faster economic growth, continued diversification of its economy away from hydrocarbons, and to create jobs

• FINANCE

  Saudi, Kuwait, UAE lead Q1 GCC corporate earnings growth

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 4. 2012

  Earnings of Saudi Arabian companies totalled $6.7 billion, an increase of 15 per cent YoY and 28 per cent QoQ.

• REAL ESTATE

  Key to the kingdom

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 3. 2012

  2012 is likely to be the tipping point for the Gulf’s most ambitious real estate project. If the good results continue, and companies carry on signing up to take advantage of the transport infrastructure coming online in 2013, then KAEC looks set to snowball.

• OIL

  Oil Prices Fall Below Break-Even for Several Nations

  SUSTG Team  |  6. 2. 2012

  Citibank expects that Russia will have a very turbulent next five years, given their estimate that Brent crude prices will likely settle close to $85 over that time period.

• INVESTMENT

  Islamic funds seek socially responsible roadmap

  Lucien Zeigler  |  6. 1. 2012

  The links between Islamic finance and socially responsible investments (SRI) are not new, but the former needs a similar transformation which brought SRI into the mainstream.

• OIL

  Changing patterns in U.S. crude imports

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 31. 2012

  While growing domestic tight oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota and elsewhere has helped displace imports from some countries, U.S. import volumes from the Canadian oil sands and Saudi Arabia have been on the rise.

• EDUCATION

  At the SACM Career Fair in Washington, Saudi Arabia’s Brightest Are Met With Opportunities (PHOTOS)

  Lucien Zeigler  |  5. 30. 2012

  Across the United States, around the end of the month of May every year, graduating students from high schools and universities join with families and friends to celebrate their achievements in ceremonies held by their respective educational institutions.

• SOCIAL MEDIA

  Saudi Satire Ignites YouTube’s Massive Growth in Middle East

  Lucien Zeigler  |  5. 30. 2012

  Fahad Albutairi never expected a career in broadcast or comedy, and he certainly didn’t expect to emerge as a YouTube star known to millions.

• BUSINESS

  Saudi female entrepreneurs exploit changing attitudes

  Lucien Zeigler  |  5. 30. 2012

  In Saudi Arabia, a small but determined number of women are overcoming obstacles to build their own thriving businesses.

• AVIATION

  Saudi Arabian Airlines Officially Becomes ‘Saudia’, Embraces Privatization

  Lucien Zeigler  |  5. 29. 2012

  Saudi Arabian Airlines has today been formally renamed Saudia and has become a full member of the SkyTeam alliance while at the same time confirming the first stage of the long-awaited privatisation will go ahead in the next month.