The ongoing impact of the still reverberating Arab Spring protests, civil wars and revolutions on the economic outlook for 2012 was the broad theme of a seminar held in the Dubai International Financial Centre today using ‘Chatham House Rules’ that allow press reporting but not the attribution of actual quotations to individuals.
A little ironic from the champion of openness and transparency in corporate governance in the GCC, but nobody likes to be seen to be openly critical in the current environment. And so this opaqueness can actually encourage freedom of speech as commentators feel more able to speak out.
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