United Arab Emirates
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.
9 books
Start here
- City of GoldJim Krane, 2009
- Dubai: The Vulnerability of SuccessChristopher M. Davidson, 2008
- Dubai, the City as CorporationAhmed Kanna, 2011
Books 9
T2 City of Gold
Jim Krane · 2009 · Dubai's construction of a trading city, written as the 2009 debt crisis hit.
Christopher M. Davidson · 2008 · The emirate's development model and its structural dependencies.
Christopher M. Davidson · 2009 · The hydrocarbon emirate and the origins of its sovereign funds.
Syed Ali · 2010 · Migrant labour, property speculation and the social structure underneath the boom.
Ahmed Kanna · 2011 · The emirate governed explicitly as a firm, and what that means for investors.
Christopher Balding · 2012 · The sceptical view of sovereign fund disclosure, returns and political use.
Christopher Davidson · 2013 · The political-risk case against the Gulf monarchies' durability.
Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H. B. Monk · 2013 · How ADIA and its peers are governed and how they actually invest.
Jim Krane · 2019 · Domestic energy subsidies as the Gulf's central fiscal problem.