Saudi Arabia: Building boom   Saudi Arabia’s construction industry has been forecast to be one of the Kingdom’s best performing sectors in 2012, with an increasing flow of state contracts coming its way.   More...   BUSINESS FORUM: ECONOMY OVERVIEW AND MODON - DR. TAWFIG ALRABIAH   The US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum featured an extremely rich assembly of senior government officials, business people and more from Saudi Arabia and the United States. The Saudi delegation also included Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, the Modon.  More...   Saudi Arabia: Economy on an Even Keel   High domestic spending and sound levels of liquidity are expected to offset any adverse effects of Europe’s debt crisis on the Saudi Arabian economy, and the Kingdom looks set to maintain its solid growth for the remainder of this year and into the next.  More...   Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in Saudi Arabia 50 Percent   The number of factories operating in the manufacturing sector in Saudi Arabia rose by 50%, constituting about 36% of the total number of factories in the GCC. Investment in this sector has increased by 91.5%,   More...   Mining a Strategic Option for Development Advancement   The mining industry is a base of raw materials needed for metallurgical industries, where any branch of the national economy cannot prosper without metals. Some minerals play an important role for the Kingdom’s national economy,  More...   Al-Ahsa Industrial City   The Industrial city is located on Dammam/Dhahran highway at the entrance of Al-Aqeer port road in the northwestern part, about 22 km away from Hofuf north of Al-Ahsa. The industrial city is built on an area of 1.5 million square meters three phases..  More...   IT Market in the Kingdom worth 12.4 billion riyals   The value of the information technology market in the kingdom, which is the largest in the Middle East, is about 12.4 billion riyals, and is expected to continue its growth up to 17.25 billion riyals by 2014.  More...   SME growth key to unlock Saudi Arabia's potential   A report recently published by the World Bank states that the SME sector currently forms 90% of all Saudi companies, yet the sector only contributes a quarter of total employment and about a third of the country's gross domestic product.  More...   Morale workman relationship with production level   Morale is one of the topics that occupied a prominent place in the field of industrial psychology which reflects the overall picture of the type of human relations  More...