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As one of the world’s most influential business hubs, the Middle East requires expert attention. Business Extra provides those experts, as well as news and insights from The National’s esteemed team of business editors and reporters, who are on top of the markets, technology, the energy sector and more.
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Thursday Sep 28, 2017
The electric vehicle revolution is here
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Host Mustafa Alrawi and Chris Nelson, Assistant Business Editor discuss Dubai's new incentives to get 32,000 electric and hybrid cars on the road by 2020 and what it means for the UAE economy.
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
China's Belt and Road Initiative and what it means for Middle East trade
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Episode Host Mustafa Alrawi was at the IISS Bahrain Bay Forum in Manama this week where he heard lively and insightful debate on the impact of China's ambitions for a new silk road : on global trade links and infrastructure. Leading expert on the topic Professor Lanxin Xiang explains what the Belt and Road Initiave is and Gulf-based economist Omar Al Ubaydli discusses why China's approach has been so successful in this region.
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Property developers in buoyant mood and why investor relations matter
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Episode 35: Host Mustafa Alrawi discusses this week's highlights from Cityscape Global in Dubai with The National's Sarmad Khan. Looking ahead to the Middle East Investor Relations Association's conference next week, chairman Alex McDonald-Vitale and ADS Securities' Dr Ryan Lemand explain how the region's capital markets are quickly maturing.
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Enabling the digital economy
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Business Extra, Episode 34: This week, host Mustafa Alrawi speaks to Sirish Kumar, chief executive and co-founder of digital payments company Telr to find out if 2017 really is a watershed year for e-commerce and the digital economy in the UAE and wider region. Mr Kumar says it is exciting times as online transactions grow at a phenomenal rate.