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In January 2023, the World Bank released a report on the state of energy policies and regulations globally. The Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) report ranks countries out of 100 depending on how advanced their renewable energy regulatory frameworks are.
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Glimpses of the frenetic activity of the tech industry in the Middle East are becoming all the more common as countries in the region move forward with their plans to foster the development of their digital economies.
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Introduction
The eerily human dialogues of ChatGPT elicited a mixture of awe and fear from members of the public and governments worldwide. Some worried the artificial intelligence chatbot was a few lines of code away from sentience. Others, like plagiarism-wary professors, harbored more rudimentary concerns.
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Columns of heavy arms and infantry regiments rumbled down New Delhi’s ceremonial Kartavya Path on Jan. 26 as India commemorated its 74th Republic Day, an annual celebration of its constitution’s enactment. Standing beside Prime Minister Narendra Modi observing the spectacle was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, this year’s guest of honor.
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US direct investment abroad totaled $6.5 trillion in 2021, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) received only $96 billion (1.5%) of these funds. American entities, by contrast, invested 4.2 times more in Canada than they did in the entire region.
