The Middle East

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Hospitals in Saudi Arabia are among the best equipped in the GCC region, with some of the most up-to-date medical devices furnishing the country’s medical centres and clinics with advanced diagnostic and prosthetic equipment and medical appliances.

 

Given pride of place in both the Kingdom’s long-term development plans and in its annual budget, education in Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major expansion – both in terms of quantity and quality. A range of new projects were launched over 2017 and will continue into 2018, from university construction to curriculum development. Indeed...

 

After a period of stabilisation in which the government implemented a number of reforms, the real estate and construction sectors are preparing for the introduction of a range of projects under the Saudi Vision 2030 initiative. Lower oil prices and the resulting fiscal consolidation of the state cooled demand in 2016 and early 2017; however,...

 

The year 2017 emerged as a bumper year for new openings in the hotel and leisure segment, as investors prepared for growth in visitor arrivals. Additional building and higher occupancy rates will be driven by efforts to ensure that the Kingdom can host a large number of pilgrims safely, combined with rising business travel as the economy...

 

The long-term development plan Saudi Vision 2030 seeks to transform the economy from powerful but hydrocarbons-dependent to diversified, dynamic and knowledge intensive, with a high standard of living for all citizens. One of the most ambitious policy documents published by any country, it is already having an extensive impact on the...

 

One of the main objectives for the Ministry of Education (MoE) in the National Transformation Programme (NTP), the kingdom’s development plan to 2020, is the continuation of a “shift to digital education in support of both teachers and students”. This ambition builds on major investment in recent years aimed at bringing the electronic...

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