Over the past decade, industry players like Boeing, Bombardier and Airbus have moved into Morocco to boost aeronautical capacity. Important deals and government incentives have helped the industry achieve a 17% annual average growth rate since 2010, and in 2015 aeronautics exports reached Dh7.3bn (€670m), according to the Office des Changes....
Although Morocco is home to a range of metals and minerals, the mining sector has long been dominated by phosphates. The kingdom possesses an estimated 77% of the world’s total phosphate reserves and remains the leading global exporter. Currently the sector contributes 10% of Morocco’s GDP, with 90% of this coming from phosphates.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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