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ADDED organises workshop to promote investments, exports

 Admin  22 days ago  Local News, Uncategorized

Abu Dhabi / WAM

The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), organised a two-day training workshop at

its headquarters, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, entitled, ‘Policies of Encouraging

Investments and Export.
The workshop provided participants with an analysis of the government’s strategies to promote exports

and attract investments, by providing practical analytical tools to study and encourage

Emirati exports.
The workshop was attended by Industry Development Office representatives, which is part of ADDED, as

well as representatives of the Education and Knowledge Department, the Ministry of Economy, the Urban

Planning and Municipalities Department, and Abu Dhabi Ports, along with representatives of private sector
companies concerned with exports.

The workshop, moderated by Dr. Belqassem Al Abbas from the Arab Institute for Planning in Kuwait,

discussed a range of issues, such as development, the importance of promoting exports and investments
and related development policies, as well as an analysis of the global output value chains, commodity

space analysis, and developing export development strategies.

Dr. Adeeb Afifi, Director of the Foreign Trade and Exports Support Administration at ADDED, said that the
workshop is part of series of activities and seminars organised by the department, which aim to provide

incentives and assistance for the private sector, to increase Abu Dhabi’s level of exports to other countries

by encouraging non-oil exports, with the aim of achieving the goals of the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision
2030 of increasing the value of the emirate’s non-oil exports to 11 percent of its GDP.

He added that the participants of the first session of the workshop’s first day discussed the major

economic and development characteristics of the emirate’s export and investment sector, as well as its
level of income and the economic growth and role of trade in the UAE’s development, in order to highlight

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