With a long-standing status as one of Dubai’s key economic contributors, activity in the industrial sector has been a major contributor to non-oil GDP for the emirate. Even as Dubai’s government has invested heavily in areas such as ICT in recent years, industrial activity has remained a central component of the emirate’s long-term economic...
Since Dubai’s initial forays into state-led industrial development in the 1970s and 1980s, growth in light and heavy manufacturing, logistics and other related areas has taken place almost exclusively in the context of the emirate’s numerous industrial parks and free zones. Indeed, the organisation of Dubai’s economic development into discrete...
Over the past decade Dubai has earned a reputation as a centre for agricultural development planning and, more recently, technological innovation in farming and related industries. Along with neighbouring Abu Dhabi, the emirate has played a key role in the UAE’s steadily improving food security in recent years, despite a wide range of...
Chemicals production is one of the leading lights of Kuwait’s industrial sector, an important contributor to its economy and an export earner. It is at the centre of the country’s drive to diversify its earnings and boost the value it obtains from its mineral wealth. Output is expected to rise as the national petrochemicals company and...
Economic diversification is at the heart of Kuwait’s long-term development strategy, as is establishing the country as a gateway to the northern Gulf and Middle East. The industrial sector has a central role to play in this, as the state looks to develop export-oriented businesses that can supplement hydrocarbons income and broaden the revenue...
Though chiefly known for its success in the oil and gas sector, which has made it one of the world’s wealthiest countries, Qatar is also home to a number of non-hydrocarbons industries that are playing an increasingly important in the economy, particularly in light of the government’s broader plans for diversification. According to the...
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