Improving the governance of businesses, particularly family-owned firms that comprise the majority of non-oil economy in the Middle East, is a top concern for the Region. This is according to the ‘Corporate Governance for Competitiveness in the Middle East and Africa’ report, just released by Crescent Enterprises, the UAE-based conglomerate, and co-developed with the Pearl Initiative, the leading Gulf...

Davos: “Business has a responsibility to take lead and start to help finding solutions to the Arab world’s problems, and we cannot sit back and rely on the progressive policies of the UAE government to solve everything in the region,” said Badr Jafar, Chief Executive Officer of UAE-based Crescent Enterprises which employs 5,000 people in 22 countries...