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Regional

Impact investing reshapes the future of the GCC economy

An article by Vikas Arora, Chief of Impact Investing at AVPN. In the realm of investment strategies, West Asia (Middle East) has long...

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Regional

Why is it crucial to announce funding milestones?

Lucy Bradley, Brand Commander of Plug Communications If you are not visible, you are invisible. It might sound obvious, but I am...

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Regional

Women's role in Mena's green economy

Petra Jeffery, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Dubai Amidst the stark realities of gender...

Green Economy International Women's Day IWD

Global

What happened to the future?

Steen Jakobsen is the chief investment officer at Saxo Bank The once bright future now appears more bleak than ever. Geopolitical...

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Global

The financial rollercoaster has investors reeling: is the “great rebalancing” here?

Abhishek Datta is the associate vice president at the Continental Group, an insurance intermediary and financial services solution provider...

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Regional

Adopting cashless payment channels will double business growth [Opinion]

We’re at an inflection point in the history of payments. Led by countries like Sweden, where non-cash payments now outweigh cash...

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Lebanon

What can the social innovation ecosystem learn from the tech sector in Lebanon? [Opinion]

Social entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as the key for sustainable development in diverse contexts worldwide. As developed countries...

lebanon oped Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

This is why MENA corporates should invest more in agriculture [Opinion]

Recent reports providing data on investments in the food and beverage (F&B) sector indicate its increasing importance to the Middle...

Agriculture oped Corporate investment

Regional

A more digital Middle East is in the making [Opinion]

Pundits predict that the Internet of Things, or IoT, is going to change the nature of interaction between governments and businesses all...

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Regional

Investors, brace yourselves for the aftermath of unprofitable unicorn IPOs [Opinion]

The fundamental idea behind Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, is that when companies need capital, they get themselves listed on public...

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Global

A smart, cost-effective way to build your ecommerce site [Opinion]

The broad expansion of internet and its related technologies is impacting people’s daily routines and changing the way they...

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Regional

Could MENA see a unicorn soon?

Extinct in the wild in the 1970s and reintroduced in the 1980s, the Arabian Oryx may be the animal closest to a unicorn. (Image...

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Regional

Some considerations on starting a company in MENA [Opinion]

The path to the MENA market is difficult but not impossible. (Image via constructionweekonline) Entrepreneurship is not for everyone,...

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Pakistan

What to do when the giants arrive [Opinion]

Visitors to Lahore from the Islamabad incubator i2i test out the Savaree service. (Images via Savaree) Madeeha Hassan, founder of...

taxi app ride sharing Lahore

Global

Then and now: how accelerators have evolved

This article is a crosspot with Nuwait. As Kuwait is welcoming soon one of the top five accelerators in the world, TechStars, we...

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