The UAE ranks 1-st globally in Global Entrepreneurship Index 2022, which means that the state has a strong economic environment and flexible policies that ensure all the facilities and incentives necessary to attract and establish businesses and support their operations. Thus, the interest in...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has established itself as the medical device industry’s preferred regional center. Major multinational corporations either have a regional subsidiary or are planning to open up a principal office in the UAE to expand their business. Employees in the industry are...

This paper defines the Business English (BE) specialism, presents the implications for teaching BE and reports on empirical data collected from a cohort of pre-experience undergraduate students undertaking their first Business writing course in the UAE. The data was used to inform the design of...

This research investigates the attitudes and behaviors of Generation Z university students in the UAE towards sustainable fashion using a local college in Abu Dhabi as the study population. The literature review highlights a potential gap between the sustainability claims of Generation Z and...

Shopping with Allah illustrates the ways in which religion is mobilised in package tourism and how spiritual, economic and gendered practices are combined in a form of tourism where the goal is not purely leisure but also ethical and spiritual cultivation. Focusing on the intersection of gender...

The Selected Issues paper discusses United Arab Emirates' (UAE) focus on reforms for productive and greener growth. This paper aims to quantify the potential long-term growth and productivity gains from ongoing structural reform efforts. Facilitating green and sustainable private finance would...

The 2022 Article IV Consultation highlights that United Arab Emirates (UAE) economic growth strengthened in 2022, benefitting from a rapid and effective coronavirus disease response, supportive fiscal measures, and the benefits of earlier social and business-friendly reforms. The economic...

We conducted a randomized experiment of the impact of remittance labeling among Filipino migrant workers in the UAE. The ability to label remittances with the migrant’s intended uses leads migrants with low levels of baseline (pre-treatment) remittances to increase their remittance levels....