In a bid to develop a sustainable and diversified economy, non-hydrocarbons industry is becoming increasingly important, and the government of Abu Dhabi has set ambitious growth targets for the industrial sector over the coming two decades. The emirate is developing the infrastructure to achieve these aims, with the objective of creating an...
In line with Abu Dhabi’s plans to increase the quality and value of the manufacturing sector in the emirate, the government has been putting in place a new quality and conformity regime. The drive to improve standards in the sector should create new opportunities for local producers to increase their international competitiveness, enabling them...
Abu Dhabi is emerging as an important global supplier of aluminium. As capacity expansions push the emirate towards the top of the rankings, plans are in the works to build additional manufacturing capacity around the material for finished and semi-finished products. Indeed, over the coming years, the aluminium cluster at the Khalifa Industrial...
The economic diversification strategy Qatar has opted for rests on reinvesting the income from hydrocarbons sales. Developing a base for industry and manufacturing has been a pillar of this, with accelerated efforts to grow the sector taking place over the past decade. Building on Qatar’s comparative advantages, the government has focused on...
Myanmar is one of the more promising nations for investment into manufacturing. Wages are some of the lowest in the world, workers are productive and the literacy rate is in the high ninety percentile. In addition, the country is actively targeting manufactured goods after years of isolation, with legal reform and better regulation gathering...
Myanmar may find that the first steps toward general nationwide economic reform will begin within industrial estates. These zones can create forms of ownership not possible under the law of the land, and can be paired with special incentives and offer better infrastructure than is available elsewhere. The strategy has worked well in Thailand,...
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