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Doing business in Saudi Arabia has become more regulated. That is one of the reasons why have such split views. The role of SAGIA, the investment authority, has become more active. They are supervising the investors, checking whether the investors with license are really active or not.
The capacity of our economy to absorb more Saudi talents is real, but we cannot only rely on the government, the private sector has a crucial role to play here. Until now, there has been a general belief that only the government is responsible for employment and job creation. But I believe that the government and the private sector are equally responsible.
The power sector is growing rapidly, at the rate of 7.5% per annum, which is not easy to manage. Today, any power plant, that is just developing, will require 2 to 5 years for it to be ready for production. 50% of the population today is under the age of 20.
“We have 22-23% market share because we’re still the biggest private ISP in Egypt by far and the rest are between 5-7% each. Our major strength has always been that we are a private company – we have more freedom to try new stuff. We hire the best calibers in Egypt, we have 1,200 employees who are all experts in their areas, and we are always open to trying new technology.”
The Saudi lubricant market represents 420 thousand metric tonnes. The emerging markets now consist of the Middle Eastern markets and the African markets. These are set to increase by 3.2% per year for the next 5 years or until at least 2019 according to the latest studies.
Fawaz Hajjar is General Manager of Al Hayat Building Materials Company, a leading supplier of sanitary ware, faucets, water heaters and more. With 15,000 items, the company is one of the largest building material distributors in the kingdom.
L’ambition de l’Etat est de faire de la Côte d’Ivoire le hub énergétique. Il est donc très important que nous soyons aux côtés de l’Etat pour satisfaire cette ambition et nous sommes prêts à mobiliser les ressources et les financements, pour l’accompagner dans le domaine des infrastructures, mais aussi dans la gestion de ces infrastructures.
Lorsqu’on parle d’assurance, la Côte d’Ivoire est le pays en Afrique où ce secteur s’est beaucoup développé ces dernières décennies, surtout en assurance vie. Bien que des avancées notables aient été enregistrées il faut admettre qu’il reste encore beaucoup de choses à développer ici.
When you want to encourage processing, when you want investors to come for that purpose, you create conditions in the fiscal framework, in relation to the cost-efficiency of production, so that domestic and foreign investors want to come here.
Quand on veut encourager la transformation, quand on veut que les investisseurs viennent réaliser, on crée des conditions dans le cadre fiscal, par rapport à la maîtrise des coûts des facteurs de production, pour que les investisseurs nationaux ou étrangers trouvent un intérêt à venir transformer ici.
