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The United Arab Emirates( UAE) receives its fair share of global media attention. Dubai’ s transformation into an international travel and business destination has been astonishingly fast – and the architectural wonders that the Emirate has created have captured the world’ s imagination. Try watching the light-show that happens every evening on the Dubai Mall side of the Burj Khalifa, the world’ s tallest structure, and not be impressed.
But the UAE is more than just Dubai. And the transformation has not been limited to just one city.
Rather, the country is seen, increasingly, as a hub for the wider Middle East region. Talent, from right across the globe, has helped transform the UAE’ s economy – the seventh largest, per capita, in the world, according to the IMF. Dubai Airport is now the world’ s third busiest, according to Airports Council International.
Abu Dhabi – one of the world’ s wealthiest cities – has also seen significant infrastructure investment,
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