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Global Emerging Market Research Highlights

The Report: Qatar 2026
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Despite heightened regional uncertainty in 2026, Qatar remains well positioned for long-term growth, supported by its role as a leading liquefied natural gas exporter, strong fiscal foundations and...

Building for tomorrow: Oman's Vision 2040 and the emerging investment opportunity

Oman‘s economic transformation is one of the Gulf’s most compelling – and least reported – investment stories. In just five years, the sultanate has cut public debt from 68% of GDP to approximately 36%...

Report: Examining how humanisation is shaping urban transformation and liveability in Madinah

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 agenda is reshaping urban development through a stronger focus on liveability, inclusion and quality of life. In Madinah, the region’s humanisation programme is translating these...

Report: Exploring the role of banks in Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation

Saudi Arabia’s banking sector is evolving alongside broader economic diversification, investment mobilisation and financial sector development under Vision 2030. Strong macroeconomic...

Special Reports
Impact Report

Report: Trade shifts and value creation across the Red Sea Corridor

Global trade realignment is reshaping logistics flows across the Red Sea Corridor, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, India and South-east Asia. This Impact Report examines how new trade routes, infrastructure...
Special Report

Report: Evaluating sector trends and investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia’s media landscape

Saudi Arabia’s media sector is entering a period of sustained expansion, supported by regulation, rising consumer demand and targeted investment. This report, produced in partnership with Gmedia...
Impact Report

Report: Saudi Arabia’s MSEs and freelancers are driving employment and economic diversification

Micro-sized and small enterprises (MSEs) and freelancers are expanding rapidly in Saudi Arabia, contributing to employment generation, economic diversification and the Kingdom’s competitiveness...
ESG Report

Report: Sustainable finance and ESG adoption advancing across Kuwait and the GCC

Kuwait is strengthening its role in the GCC’s transition towards sustainable finance and low-carbon economic growth, in line with Kuwait Vision 2035 and regional environmental, social...
Impact Report

Report: Saudi Arabia’s fintech evolution – digital payments, inclusion and Vision 2030

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy places digital transformation at the centre of economic diversification. Financial technology (fintech) solutions, particularly digital payments, are helping to expand...
Focus Report

Report: How is Sharjah building a sustainable ecosystem for talent, entrepreneurship and innovation?

Sharjah has engineered a transformation into a leading hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in the MENA region. The emirate’s success is powered by a uniquely integrated ecosystem that...
Special Report

Report: How Saudi Arabia’s private sector is driving health care transformation

Saudi Arabia’s health care sector is undergoing a structural transformation driven by Vision 2030’s reform agenda. With health expenditure rising and demand for advanced services growing...
Market Outlook Report

Saudi Arabia Cultural Market Outlook: Vision, Impact and Opportunities 2025

The cultural and creative economy generates 3.1% of global GDP and supports over 30m jobs. Its scope spans film, music, fashion, heritage and museums, with multiplier effects across supply chains and...

Report: Trade shifts and value creation across the Red Sea Corridor
Report: Evaluating sector trends and investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia’s media landscape
Report: Saudi Arabia’s MSEs and freelancers are driving employment and economic diversification
Report: Sustainable finance and ESG adoption advancing across Kuwait and the GCC
Report: Saudi Arabia’s fintech evolution – digital payments, inclusion and Vision 2030
Report: How is Sharjah building a sustainable ecosystem for talent, entrepreneurship and innovation?
Report: How Saudi Arabia’s private sector is driving health care transformation
Saudi Arabia Cultural Market Outlook: Vision, Impact and Opportunities 2025
 

Report: Examining the economic value of environmental protection and governance in Oman

This report examines the economic value of environmental protection in Oman and the role of environmental governance in supporting resilience, competitiveness and sustainable growth...

Saudi Arabia’s evolving banking sector

Oxford Business Group has launched a new Impact Report exploring the evolution of Saudi Arabia’s banking sector amid the country’s economic transformation. Banking is playing an increasingly critical...

Key Interviews & Sectoral Videos
Growth Perspectives Video

Unlocking Saudi Arabia's human capital potential

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG highlights the growing importance of human capital in achieving Saudi Arabia’s objective of a more diversified economy. As the Kingdom advances its Vision 2030...
Global Platform

Unlocking Ghana’s potential through value-added manufacturing

In this Global Platform video, Mukesh Thakwani, CEO, B5 Plus Group, discusses the progress within Ghana’s steel industry, with local iron ore deposits helping to address raw material shortages and improve...
Growth Perspective

How Oman drives sustainable growth beyond oil

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG highlights Oman's growth in non-oil and gas segments. The Gulf region is undergoing a major economic transformation, shifting away from hydrocarbons...
Growth Perspectives

Oman’s tourism and hospitality sectors undergo transformative growth

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG highlights the transformative growth of Oman's tourism and hospitality sectors, and the key factors driving it. As the sultanate sets its sights on attracting 11m tourists...
Growth Perspectives

Oman's transport transformation: Building a regional logistics powerhouse

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG highlights the accelerated transformation of Oman's transport sector. Anchored by Oman Vision 2040, the sector contributed 7% to GDP in 2023, with aims...
Global Platform Video

What's fuelling Libya's steady economic recovery?

In this Global Platform video, Naser Gadad, General Manager, AlSahl Group Holding, talks about the factors driving Libya's economic progress. The country’s recovery is gaining momentum...
Growth Perspectives

Sultanate of Oman’s finance and leasing sector fuelling economic diversification

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG shows how the finance and leasing sector is contributing to the Sultanate of Oman's economic diversification efforts. Amid global economic headwinds, the sultanate...
Global Platform

Oman Vision 2040 shaping the future of tourism and sustainability

In this Global platform video, Salim M. AlMahruqi, Oman's Minister of Heritage and Tourism, and Azzan AlBusaidi, Oman's Undersecretary of Tourism, talk about Oman Vision 2040 as a strategic plan aimed...
Global Platform

Driving innovation and sustainability in Qatar's banking sector

In this Global Platform video, Shahnawaz Rashid talks about the strategies for driving innovation and sustainability in Qatar's banking sector. Qatar has developed strong infrastructure, including roads...
Global Platform

Ensuring business continuity and supporting private sector development in Qatar

In this Global Platform video, Oxford Business Group speaks with Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, Founder and Chairman, Al Faisal Holding, and key leaders of the privately held diversified group.

Unlocking Saudi Arabia's human capital potential
Unlocking Ghana’s potential through value-added manufacturing
How Oman drives sustainable growth beyond oil
Oman’s tourism and hospitality sectors undergo transformative growth
Oman's transport transformation: Building a regional logistics powerhouse
What's fuelling Libya's steady economic recovery?
Sultanate of Oman’s finance and leasing sector fuelling economic diversification
Oman Vision 2040 shaping the future of tourism and sustainability
Driving innovation and sustainability in Qatar's banking sector
Key leaders of Al Faisal Holding
Ensuring business continuity and supporting private sector development in Qatar
 

Qatar’s evolving automotive and mobility sector

In this Global Platform video, Mohamed Jaidah, Group Executive Director, Jaidah Group, discusses the progress made within Qatar's automotive and mobility sector...

Kuwait’s reform agenda advances economic diversification

Oxford Business Group’s latest edition of The Report: Kuwait provides a timely assessment of the country’s economic transformation under its New Kuwait 2035 strategy, following geopolitical tension...

Report Highlights
Market Profile Video

Saudi Arabia expands privatisation and partnership-driven transformation under Vision 2030

Oxford Business Group has released a new Impact Report in partnership with the National Centre for Privatisation and PPP (NCP), detailing how Saudi Arabia is leveraging privatisation and public-private partnerships...
Market Profile Video

Reshaping maritime trade and logistics across the Red Sea Corridor and beyond

In this Market Profile video, Oxford Business Group, in partnership with Folk Maritime, introduces a new Impact Report examining how global trade realignment is reshaping maritime logistics and connectivity...
Market Profile Video

Emerging opportunities under Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030

With ongoing geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East, understanding Saudi Arabia’s economic direction remains essential. The latest edition of The Report: Saudi Arabia provides a comprehensive...
Market Profile Video

Saudi Arabia’s digital payments sector drives Vision 2030 goals

In this Market Profile video, we explore how Saudi Arabia's rapidly evolving financial technology (fintech) sector, anchored by Vision 2030, is accelerating the Kingdom's digital transformation...
Market Profile Video

How Saudi Arabia is transforming its health care sector

In this Market Profile video, OBG explores Saudi Arabia’s health care transformation in 2025, highlighting the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 goals. The video, produced in partnership with Hayat National Hospitals...
Market Profile Video

How Saudi Arabia is growing its cultural economy

In this Market Profile video, Oxford Business Group, in partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Development Fund, introduces the Saudi Arabia Cultural Market Outlook 2025 report – a comprehensive study...
Market Profile Video

What's driving Saudi Arabia's fast-growing cultural sector?

In this Market Profile video, “The Report on the State of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Sustainability in the Cultural Sector" launches, exploring developments in the Kingdom’s...
Market Profile Video

How Saudi Arabia is empowering MSMEs to support economic growth

The Kafalah programme is playing a critical role in empowering micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil sector as the Kingdom works towards its Vision 2030 goals.

Saudi Arabia expands privatisation and partnership-driven transformation under Vision 2030
Reshaping maritime trade and logistics across the Red Sea Corridor and beyond
Emerging opportunities under Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
Saudi Arabia’s digital payments sector drives Vision 2030 goals
How Saudi Arabia is transforming its health care sector
How Saudi Arabia is growing its cultural economy
What's driving Saudi Arabia's fast-growing cultural sector?
How Saudi Arabia is empowering MSMEs to support economic growth
 

Report: Exploring how privatisation and PPPs are driving infrastructure delivery in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s public-private partnership (PPP) framework is advancing as a key enabler of Vision 2030’s economic diversification agenda. Supported by the National Centre for Privatisation and PPP (NCP)...

Industry in Africa

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Business intelligence and insights on trends, developments, and opportunities in Africa's industry sector

The Report

Country Report

The Report: Kuwait 2025
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Kuwait is advancing reforms under New Kuwait 2035 to diversify its economy beyond hydrocarbons. Governance changes, infrastructure investment and financial sector reforms are supporting private...
Country Report

The Report: Saudi Arabia 2025
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The near- to medium-term outlook for Saudi Arabia is broadly positive, with growth expected to accelerate as oil output rises in 2026 and non-oil activity continues to expand. While oil continues to play a central...
Country Report

The Report: Qatar 2025
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Qatar is channeling its hydrocarbons wealth into long-term economic transformation, with diversification accelerating after the FIFA 2022 World Cup...
Country Report

The Report: Oman 2025
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Oman is diversifying its economy, reducing reliance on hydrocarbons by expanding sectors like agriculture, fisheries, banking and manufacturing...
Country Report

The Report: Ajman 2025
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Ajman is accelerating economic diversification through industrial growth, tourism and innovation-driven development. The emirate’s forward-looking policies, including Ajman Vision 2030, focus on...

The Report: Kuwait 2025
The Report: Saudi Arabia 2025
The Report: Qatar 2025
The Report: Oman 2025
The Report: Ajman 2025
The Report: Ajman 2025
 

Report: Mexico’s evolving position in global supply chains

Mexico is emerging as a pivotal hub in the reconfiguration of global supply chains, driven by shifting investment and production strategies amid current geopolitical tensions. This report, produced...

How innovation is strengthening water resilience in Qatar

Rhana Kurdi, CEO, Skydrops

In this Global Platform video, Rhana Kurdi, CEO, Skydrops, explores water security in Qatar and the wider GCC – examining the region’s heavy reliance on desalination and the structural vulnerabilities...

Latest Economic News & Views

Economic View

Moafaq Ahmad Al Gaddah, Founder and Chairman, MAG Group Holding and Invest Group Overseas

On how real estate is fostering Syria’s economic recovery

Economic View

Ahmed Zaatari, CEO, SENAAT

On how local manufacturing, technology investment and human capital development are strengthening industrial competitiveness

Economic View

Obaid Al Dhaheri, CEO, Dolphin Energy

On how natural gas and sustainable technologies contribute to economic diversification efforts

Economic View

Hadi Joud, Vice President and General Manager, Joud Company

On stability, competitiveness and revival in Syria’s consumer goods industry

Economic View

Mourhaf Nazha, Chairman, Federation of Syrian Chambers of Tourism

On rebuilding tourism sector

Economic View

Antoun Habib Betinjaneh, CEO, Betinjaneh Establishment

On the investment climate and mobilising financing for local companies

Economic View

Kongratbay Sharipov Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation

On enhancing access to higher education and integrating emerging technologies into learning

Economic View

Elda Choucair, CEO, Omnicom Media Group MENA

On how social media and AI are reshaping advertising and marketing

Rebuilding and reviving Syria’s economy

In this Growth Perspectives video, OBG highlights the groundwork for Syria's economic recovery in a shifting regional landscape. The country stands at the threshold of a new chapter as it begins to rebuild and...

CEO Surveys
CEO Survey Analysis

Global CEO Survey: What is on the horizon for emerging markets?

While the recovery period following the Covid-19 pandemic saw the unlocking of major capital in emerging markets, inflationary pressures, fluctuating commodity prices and geopolitical concerns have...
CEO Survey Analysis

ESG CEO Survey: Is the board room getting greener?

Across government departments, corporate board rooms and management meetings, the implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies is at the forefront...
CEO Survey Analysis

Next steps: Where do Egyptian business leaders see things heading in 2021?

A relevant market straddling both Africa and the Middle East, Egypt's dynamic and varied economy as well as its large and fast growing population have made the country a key investment centre across...
CEO Survey Analysis

Crisis management: How are CEOs in the Gulf responding to the pandemic?

The Covid-19 pandemic that spread quickly around the world after emerging in the city of Wuhan in December 2019 has been hard for many and extremely tragic for some.

Global CEO Survey: What is on the horizon for emerging markets?
ESG CEO Survey: Is the board room getting greener?
Next steps: Where do Egyptian business leaders see things heading in 2021?
Crisis management: How are CEOs in the Gulf responding to the pandemic?
 
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