
Two very different economies in one federation: Abu Dhabi's hydrocarbon sovereign wealth and Dubai's leveraged trade, property and services hub. The English-language business literature is thin and largely journalistic.
How Dubai became the world's fastest-growing city until the credit crunch.
The emirate's development model and its structural dependencies.
How Abu Dhabi's oil wealth built the emirate and gave rise to its sovereign funds.
How Dubai became a centre for business and luxury, and the migrant labour beneath it.
Dubai governed openly as a company, and what that means for those who invest there.
How these funds actually invest and what governs them; NBIM as benchmark.
The political-risk case that the Gulf monarchies will not last.
The reference on SWF governance; Norges Bank Investment Management is the central case.
How the Gulf monarchies' cheap domestic energy became their central fiscal problem.