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Qatar also ranked among the top 20 countries globally in the 2025 Global Digital Competitiveness Index, covering 69 economies. It rose from 26th in 2024 to 20th in 2025, in line with QNV2030 and the ...

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...