Economics
Qatar’s Next Gambit After World Cup? Convincing Expats to Stay
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Qatar has set out to create a more permanent worker population with sweeping labor reforms introduced this week as it winds down a building frenzy for the 2022 soccer World Cup.
Achieving that goal would mark a fundamental shift in the economics of the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas. Foreign workers account for 95% of Qatar’s workforce and about 90% of its population.