{"id":1644,"date":"2010-12-09T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:27:40","slug":"recruitment-changes-on-the-cards-for-qatar-as-is-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-economics-analysis\/recruitment-changes-on-the-cards-for-qatar-as-is-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment Changes on the Cards for Qatar; as is Inflation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Qatar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1645\" title=\"Qatar\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Qatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Qatari Government has <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/qatar\/qatar-to-review-foreigners-recruitment-policy-ahead-of-world-cup-1.723847\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>that  it is to review its recruitment policies to prepare for World Cup 2022.  Thus far, there are no specifics on what they will do.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, to build the stadiums and the infrastructure for the  competition, Qatar will need yet more workers from abroad. There are, so  far as I see it, two points of concern that they need to be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment Qatar is on the watch list to enter tier 2 on the US  State Department\u2019s people trafficking watch list. The lowest tier is  tier 3.<\/p>\n<p>In a simple \u2018moral sense\u2019 but also for a country as concerned  with its international image as Qatar, this is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>I expect  that Qatar will be able to use the enormous bonus \u2013 this reputed $50  billion \u2013 as a carrot to persuade the business community to adopt more  humane practices as the government has pressed for in the past.<\/p>\n<p>A second concern is the potential inflationary pressures that such a  staggering potential input into the Qatari economy may well bring.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar  has struggled in recent years with inflation and it has been brought  under control only in the past year or so. Though I am no economic  expert, I fail to see how such an amount of money in such a small state  can but bring on inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Economists\u2019 comments are welcome\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: Clearly, to build the stadiums and the infrastructure for the competition, Qatar will need yet more workers from abroad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,154,64,152],"tags":[3886,18307,161,174,3022,3023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}