With some of the fastest-growing free trade zones in the region, Ras Al Khaimah has witnessed impressive economic expansion and diversification across key industries in recent years, and is on its way to becoming an important investment destination in the Gulf
Even though foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are poised to rise sharply in the second half of 2012, the Jordanian government is treading cautiously against the background of a still fragile global economy and daily concerns over the level of regional instability on its own doorstep.
Running 97 km along the central mountain range in Papua New Guinea, the Kokoda Trail played an important part in the history of the Second World War in PNG. Beginning at Owers’ Corner on the southern side of the Owen Stanley Range, it runs across the mountains to the Kokoda plateau in the Yodda Valley. From Kokoda, the track slips down towards...
The great majority of economic activity in Papua New Guinea takes place outside the formal economic system. Indeed, according to AusAID, the Australian government’s international aid entity, some 85% of PNG’s economy is informal, primarily consisting of semi-subsistence agricultural activities. A substantial percentage of the informal businesses in...
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