Special report: Saudi Arabia - Investment drive

Saudi Arabia has an image problem. In early November, the World Bank's annual Doing Business report ranked the kingdom as the world's 7th fastest reforming economy. But worldwide coverage of the country was dominated by a story about the judicial sentence given to a rape victim, who was punished along with her attackers.



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