TAG: Economy
When I wrote three months ago about why the economic changes afoot in the Gulf region have taken on a whole new urgency in “The challenge of change: And why it matters this time”, my analysis was very much framed against a background of anything but business as usual.
On Thursday's (27/07/17) newspaper review with BBC World News, OBG Editor-in-Chief Oliver Cornock discussed Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the U.S military, GlaxoSmithKline’s plan to cut costs and Amazon hitting $500 billion in market capitalisation. The review also discussed new research on antibiotics usage, plus much more.
The Philippines continues to confound critics by solidifying its position as an emerging South-east Asian economy following decades of underperformance. In contrast to other “Asian tigers” like Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and Japan, the Philippines’ service sector has been the driving force behind high economic growth.