Qatar keeps its link to the past with an eye
Qatar keeps its link to the past with an eye on the future:
Qatar has always been somewhat of an anomaly, politically and economically, among the GCC countries, marching to the beat of a different drummer.
..."Qatar at the moment is the only GCC country that is maintaining a strong economic performance, as assistant editor Jamie Stewart reports this week's issue of Construction Week. It helps that it sits on a hefty chunk of the world's natural gas fields and that it manages a strong and consistent fiscal policy."
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article...
we need to read good news, good stories. I hope you're not glued-up to only the bad ones? Are you? Cheer up!
GT is not the only news I can read everyday, so I'm sharing this to you, while you and I are here in Qatar.
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman
You want to read good news about Qatar.. Just read the Gulf Times. they dare publish any thing bad about Qatar.
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HE WHO DARES WINS
Excerpt:
"What makes the Qatar story so dramatic is that it is a country of less than 1.5 million people, just a tiny fraction of the world's population, yet it has a sound banking system and a commitment at economic diversification long before it became fashionable with other Middle East countries.
Not a bad success story for a country in which its chief contribution to the region not so long ago was pearl diving. To its credit it maintains those strong bonds to the past while it forges ahead with an eye on the future." (Rob Wagner is the editor of Construction Week.)
Well, sometimes we need some comments like this as to not feel gloomy over this economic issues we always read on the news.
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman