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Vantage View: Can free trade help promote regional reform?

Vantage View: Investing in regional stock markets through mutual funds

Vantage View: Why rising national income is not making us happier

A significant part of the production chain was outsourced from low wage countries. The second wave of globalisation and one of the biggest trends reshaping the global economy is the outsourcing of business support services from developing countries who have English speaking workforce with a good number of university graduates and where the salary structure is way below that of the rich countries.

The prospects of the war on Iraq failed to dim the profitability of the major Arab banks and many recorded higher returns last year and the first half of this year.

Vantage View: Building on strong Arab-Japan ties

The region's economic growth conditions are much stronger heading into the fourth quarter than what they were at the beginning of the year. The six Gulf states, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are all likely to record high growth rates in 2003.

Vantage View: Iraq - liberalising a shattered economy

Sovereign funds are source of global financial stability

Inflation is price of strong growth

No revolution here!

Arab stock markets under stress