Senior Consultant & Regional Editor for Asia at Oxford Business Group. (Views my own.)
Expertise in strategic communications, emerging market #economics & #ESG
13/ English has many words acquired either directly from Arabic or indirectly from Arabic words that have entered into Romance languages before passing into English. Examples include: racquet, alchemy, alcohol, algebra, algorithm, alkaline, (the article ‘al’ in Arabic denotes ‘the’), amber, arsenal, candy, coffee, cotton, ghoul, hazard, lemon, loofah, magazine, sherbet, sofa, tariff – and many more.
9/ The Arabic alphabet consists of eighteen shapes that express twenty-eight phonetic sounds with the help of diacritical marks. The same letter shape can form a "b" sound when one dot is placed below (ب), a "t" sound when two dots are placed above (ت), or a "th" sound when three dots are added above (ث)
Our thoughts - and we think our distinctive angles - will all be revealed in the fullness of time, but this is call for #OpenMinded people interested in the way the world is changing in terms of the balance of economic power between countries.
@ArnaudBuisan @financial_index@stats_feed Agree. Per capita measures are more insightful - particularly if historic behaviour is considered (economies that have already industrialised vs those that are now catching up)
It’s inspiring to imagine how thoroughly well educated the coming generations of Sustainability Directors, CSOs and other sustainability professionals could be…
There are new #MegaTrends out there that are not widely appreciated and therefore not taught; we aim to share them; publicise them and incorporate them into our #CourseWare.
And put new expressions into the #InternationalEconomicLexicon.
Very pleased to see the launch of this workplace scheme for #NetZero ASAP - starting in West Africa! It can be hard to know how to take #ClimateAction in the workplace. Look forward to seeing @nzasap3 progress