Special Report

Higher living costs, greater use of public transport, congestion problems, the opening of the Dubai toll road, tightening of credit and a global financial meltdown — all these factors should …

The results are in, and the lion’s share of opinions reflects a desire for regional consolidation and assimilation of CSR practices by the private sector. Raji Hattar, chief sustainability and …

The Gulf countries’ Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) are maturing and growing in importance, but these enormously wealthy bodies have yet to pay serious systematic attention to their corporate social responsibility …

Currently, the CSR scene across the Gulf is rather static. Fortunately, some industry leaders believe it has started to “become a main concern” on the “region’s agenda” in recent years, …

Since the formation of the UAE in 1971, the country used the early oil revenue to kick-start a series of projects and investments that would lay the foundations for long-term …

Although people may not be aware of it, in part because of the fancy Western-sounding name for it, Islam has much of corporate social responsibility in its teaching. As sharia …

Toiling in the desert has have become a corporate social responsibility (CSR) issue in the Gulf countries. There are roughly 9 million migrant workers in the Middle East, most of …

Explaining corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the GCC is quite a daunting task — while the definition is globally uniform, its role across the Middle East is not. Although the …

Margaret Thatcher once said, “You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” The former British prime minister was speaking about transport at the time, but …

The service sector of the consumer electronics industry is playing an ever more substantial role, not only in revenues, but more importantly in brand differentiation and after-sales service. It is …