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World Expos are measured in pavilions and visitor counts, but they are built and run by workers. Riyadh's hosting of Expo 2030 - following Dubai's Expo 2020, which drew over 24 million visits - will create one of the decade's largest concentrated workforce mobilisations: years of construction, then months of operations at a scale most national event industries never touch....

Walk into almost any Gulf hotel, hospital or mall, and you will meet the Philippines. For over four decades, the Philippines-to-Gulf corridor has been the region's most organised labour pipeline - millions of workers, government-run deployment systems, and training institutions that produce exactly the workers the Gulf's service economy needs. In 2026, it remains the benchmark every newer corridor is...

When Kenya and Saudi Arabia signed a labour cooperation deal covering the welfare of more than 350,000 Kenyan workers, it formalised something the Gulf job market already knew: East Africa has become one of the region's most important talent sources. Nairobi's own government has relaunched its Kazi Majuu initiative, recruiting thousands of construction and transport workers for Gulf placements in...

Bahrain has never been the Gulf's biggest economy, but it has always been one of its smartest about geography. Sitting between Saudi Arabia's vast consumer market and the sea lanes of the Gulf, the Kingdom has spent years building itself into a logistics hub - a new causeway planned to Saudi Arabia, an expanded Khalifa Bin Salman Port, a growing...