[3] February 2010, Manama: The Talal Abu Ghazaleh Organisation (TAG-Org) has announced that it has decided to set up its regional headquarters in Bahrain, citing its decision as being based on a number of factors, including its tried and tested legal and regulatory framework, the skilled local workforce and its advanced ICT infrastructure.
The Index of Economic Freedom 2010, published by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal, which ranked Bahrain as the 13th freest economy in the world, and the most free in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, highlighted a number of these factors, saying “Bahrain is home to many multinational firms that do business in the region. It has a modern communications and transportation infrastructure, a reliable regulatory structure, and a cosmopolitan outlook”. Furthermore, Bahrain was ranked first in the Gulf and wider Middle East and 13th of 192 countries worldwide in the 2010 United Nations Global e-Government Readiness Survey.
