This paper presents a review of the e-government initiatives in the Arabian Gulf countries that form the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC. Throughout the region, extensive efforts are being made to capitalize on the cyber technologies and enhance the government to citizen service. The described cases are from Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman,. While the effor...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

CHIEMI HAYASHI, World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum has developed three scenarios for the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to 2025.1 From the underlying models of economic, social, and political development used to create the scenarios, it is possible to derive forces that will shape the economic environment of the GCC and assess their implications for the compet...

China's deepening ties to Iran, evident in the comprehensive strategic partnership (CSP) signed 2021 after five years of stalled progress, is not an indication a revisionist Chinese approach Gulf region. In fact, its CSPs with Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, already activated implemented, are at far more mature levels, commensurate deep levels economic political engagement side Gulf. Thi...

This article presents the incidence of female breast cancer in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and reviews the data in relation to established reproductive factors. Overall 4480 female breast cancer cases were diagnosed during 1998-2002 among GCC country nationals. Breast cancer was the most common malignancy in all GCC countries, ranging from 16.1% of female cancers in Oman to 35....