Special Report

In recent years, Middle Eastern sales of Ferrari and Porsche grew faster than in the US and Europe. Aston Martin, now partly owned by Kuwaitis, is also focusing its attention …

Soaring oil prices and fear of a possible ‘Carbon Judgment Day’ have pushed car makers and governments the world over to steer the automotive industry towards carbon efficient vehicles. The …

These last few years European and Japanese car manufacturers have suffered because of the high rates of the yen, euro and sterling against the dollar in a region where many …

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 …