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From The Report: Qatar 2024
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The political leadership of Qatar has been working over recent decades to strategically position the country as a powerful economy and influential sovereign entity, well prepared to address future challenges. With a relatively small population and substantial revenue generated from having the third-largest proven natural gas reserves globally, Qatar has one of the world’s highest GDP per capita. The country is leveraging its natural resources to become a knowledge-based, diversified economy, and it aims to attract more foreign direct investment inflows, foster the expansion of its private sector, and further develop non-oil growth engines such as tourism, sports, financial services, technology, real estate and logistics.

This chapter contains a viewpoint from Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar.

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Overview

Strategic shift: The country is taking a multifaceted approach, ranging from economic diversification efforts to political reforms
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The political leadership of Qatar has been working over recent decades to position the country as a powerful economy and influential sovereign entity, well prepared to address future challenges. With a relatively small population and substantial revenue generated from having the third-largest proven natural gas reserves globally, Qatar has one of the world’s highest GDP per capita, at nearly $84,900 at current prices and $118,150 in purchasing power parity in 2024, according to IMF estimates. Prior…

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Forward progress: HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, on the necessity of global unity
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God has bestowed a favour on us by living in an era of unprecedented accelerating progress, in which an innovative spirit prevails in the fields of medicine, technology and science; and wherein the human ability of exploiting the resources enabling the provision of a decent life for all of humanity has multiplied. Numerous technological innovations have brought about greater productivity, prosperity and a level of communication between humans in a way close to realising visions from science fiction. Although…