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Read More..5th Annual Translation and Linguistics Conference
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Open Cities were invited to present at the 5th Annual Translation and Linguistics Conference at the Academy of Graduate Studies held in Tripoli on 18 and 19 November 2009 Dr Marc Stephens presented a paper on Work Culture and the Informational Content of Arabic and English Idioms Compared. The paper argued that globalization is forcing change in the private sector across North Africa and a convergence towards international norms.
Read More..Marc Stephens writes about the Knowledge Economy in the 2009 edition of Middle East Business Focus
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Read More..Cairo, Egypt, 1 December 2008: Marc Stephens chairs panel discussion on vocational education
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Cairo, Egypt, 1 December 2008: Marc Stephens yesterday chaired a high level panel discussion on vocational education in Egypt in Cairo’s Industrial Modernisation Centre.
Read More..Leadership, skills and economic development in the Middle East: an analytical framework
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Read More..OpenCities working in Libyan financial sector
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Read More..Marc Stephens writes about Saudi Arabia's economic challenges in the latest edition of the Middle East Association's quarterly journal.
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Read More..New Projections of Economic and Population Growth in the BRIC Economies
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Read More..Opencities advises on development of economic city in Saudi Arabia
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OpenCities is advising one of the largest private sector players in the Middle East on the development of economic cities in Saudi Arabia.
Conceived by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, the economic cities initiative comprises four main components:
- the development of a business friendly environment
- world class infrastructure
- globally competitive business clusters
- the creation of cities, not industrial zones
The largest of these planned developments is King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), the single largest private sector project in the region developed by Emaar the Economic City (Emaar.E.C), a Tadawul-listed company.
Read More..OpenCities joins national skills experts in new online journal on skills
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Marc Stephens joins the country’s leading experts on adult skills and vocational learning in a debate about ‘world class skills’ in a new online journal published by Ufi, the largest e-learning network of its kind in the world.
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