Quote from: Sayeds56 on June 04, 2022, 05:59:01 AM

Quote from: merchantofzeny on June 03, 2022, 03:48:08 PM

Short answer: Oil

Long answer: Oil and foreign expertise and labor

Oh well, I guess it also helps that it's somewhat less draconian at imposing their religion based laws. Otherwise the Dubai Portapotties wouldn't be able to earn their living and will have to settle for Onlyfans. Grin

There are many oil rich rich countries like Dubai but they could not make such huge progress because they are politically not stable and leadership is corrupt so oil is not the only reason for their fast development. There are many other reasons and one of them is Dedicated and forward looking leadership who has smartly used Dubai oil wealth, Western brain and Asian muscle to reach where they are now.

I'd like to think that there was an initial decision to be a little bit more relaxed (they do have less oil than say, KSA). That in turn encouraged experts, etc and they just have to keep maintaining that status.