Analysis

• TRADE

  USTR: Saudi Continues to Protect Intellectual Property Rights

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday released the 2012 Special 301 Report reviewing the intellectual property protection policies of foreign nations.

• Investment

  

  How Gulf Countries Are Splurging at Home

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  Booming oil prices are flooding Arab countries with money, but where the lion's share of that wealth would once have been pumped into the world's financial markets, much of it is now being spent at home.

• GEOGRAPHY

  Island in the Gulf – A Film of Juraid Island

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  One of the great joys of living in Saudi Arabia has always been the natural environment itself – the dunes, the jebals and especially the Gulf with its beaches, reefs and islands.

• SECURITY

  Foreign Military Sales Keep Production Lines Hot

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  “Partnership building is part of one of the largest benefits that we see,” Hunt said. “It’s building and maintaining friendships, it’s about building allies."

• POWER

  SEC unveils SR452b projects

  SUSTG Team  |  5. 8. 2012

  The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has allocated SR452 billion to implement energy projects until the year 2021 according to SEC Chairman of the Board of Directors Dr. Saleh Bin Hussein Al-Awaji.

• SUSTG Team  |  4. 24. 2012

• ENERGY

  US and Saudi team up for renewable energy projects

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 18. 2012

  The United States and Saudi Arabia are prepared to sign a number of deals related to the establishment of investment and service projects depending on renewable energy resources, Arab News reported.

• DEFENSE

  The arms spending map of the world

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 18. 2012

  How much do countries spend on their militaries? This data from the Stockholm International Peace research Institute shows the world in arms spending – both in dollars over time and as a percentage of GDP.

• BANKING

  Major Banks Expanding in Saudi Arabia

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 17. 2012

  “We’d be crazy to limit ourselves to a handful of bankers when we can see oil prices are going to sustain the Saudi economy for the foreseeable future,” Rory Gilbert, the head of Middle East and North Africa at London-based Barclays’s wealth management unit, said.