towards driving ongoing projects to completion in Q1 2020 and was cautious in new announcements as well [...] billion worth of projects had been completed in Q1, mainly driven by the UAE and Saudi Arabia with 38% [...] registered $12.9 billion worth of project awards in Q1 driven by the UAE and Saudi Arabia with 42% and 40%
robots Bahrain's GDP growth rate down by 1.1% in Q1 2020 MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS NEWS GCC banks’ [...] COVID-19 relief: Dubai extends rent-free period for over 1,000 commercial tenants Marhaba: Dubai rolls [...] IFS study US pandemic aid programme saved 51.1m jobs, but wealthy and connected also benefited
totaled a seasonally adjusted 1.480 million for the week ended June 20, down from 1.540 million in the prior [...] ers_despite_businesses_reopening-TR20200625nL1N2E12QDX1/ [...] " Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 1.3 million claims in the latest week. Claims have dropped
growth last year of 1.6 percent, the government now expects the economy to expand 1.4 percent annually [...] now marginally trimmed its deficit forecast to 3.1 percent, according to public finance forecasts the [...] Previously the government had expected annual growth of 1.7 percent in the coming years, but Finance Minister
receive further payments of $1.76 billion in 2020, $1.85 billion in 2021, $1.42 billion in 2022 and $650 [...] state sold $1 billion of sukuk, or Islamic bonds, due in 2027 with a yield of 4.5% as well as $1 billion
handled 1,769 complaints of unpaid wages, compared with just 276 cases in 2013, 1,386 in 2014, 1,316 in [...] substitution. “We have introduced from March 1 rules under which employers have to attach a copy [...] in 2015 and 1,535 in 2016. There were a total of 594,944 foreign workers employed in Bahrain by the
the economy grew 1.6 percent over the course of last year, marginally better than the 1.5 percent flagged [...] households’ real disposable income growth accelerated to 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter from 0.7 percent in [...] sector, investment growth fell to 0.3 percent from 1.7 percent in the third quarter as companies’ profit
from 2016 when Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 1.1 percent. INSEE said the economy performed particularly [...] The French economy grew by 1.9 percent in 2017, the national statistics office INSEE reported on Tuesday [...] was strong private consumption, which increased by 1.3 percent. Trade imbalance rising Exports
expanded at around a tepid 1.0 percent rate in recent years, an acceleration to 1.8 percent growth would [...] government should have little trouble surpassing the 1.7% growth forecast it built its budget plans on." [...] higher than in the UK where the economy has grown by 1.5 percent over the last 12 months. Britain's economy
Meanwhile, the number of sale promotions rose from 1,138 to 1,573 over the same period. Customers who [...] received 746 complaints against businesses from January 1 until June 30. That is an 83 per cent increase [...] revealed Consumer Protection Directorate staff conducted 1,079 inspections during the first six months.