Table of Contents

1: Abdelrazzak Al Faris and Raimundo Soto: Introduction
2: Ali Tawfik Al Sadik: Macroeconomic Overview
3: Boaz Nandwa and Ali Tawfik Al Sadik: Public Debt Management and Fiscal Sustainability
4: Michael Klein: Strategic Axes for the Development of Productive Business
5: Raimundo Soto and Boaz Nandwa: International Trade: Potential and Policies
6: Mahmoud Al Iriani, Ibrahim Elbadawi, and Dhuha Fadhel: Economic Linkages between Free-Zones and Main Dubai
7: Raimundo Soto: Competitiveness and Sustainability of Tourism
8: Mohamed Trabelsi and Dhuha Fadhel: The Financial Sector: Performance and Issues
9: Boaz Nandwa and Hessa Al Ameemi: The Retail Sector: Prospects and Potential
10: Raimundo Soto: Education in Dubai: from Quantity to Quality
11: Raimundo Soto and Yusuf Rashid: Labour Markets in Transition
12: Mahmoud Al Iriani and Eshrak al Maamari: A Primer on Dubai´s Energy Sector
13: Ibrahim Elbadawi: Access to Land and the Investment Behaviour of Firms
14: Ibrahim Elbadawi: Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability of Economic Growth
15: Abdelrazzak Al Faris and Raimundo Soto: Main Lessons and Policy Recommendations

About the Author

Professor Al Faris is Deputy Secretary General for Economic Affairs at Dubai Economic Council. He has held several academic and official positions, including Professor of Economics at UAE University, Associate Dean for Scientific Research at the College of Business, UAE University, Alternate Executive Director at the IMF (1999-2001), and Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, MIT, Dundee University, and OPEC. He has also held several governmental positions
in the UAE, including Assistant under Secretary for Planning, Ministry of Education. In addition, he has worked as a consultant to UNDP, Crown Prince Court (Abu Dhabi), Ministry of Economy, National
Assemble, Dubai municipality, Department of Economy (Dubai), and Economic Advisor to Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Tanmia. His research interests include energy markets, labour markets, poverty, and macroeconomics and public finance. He has published 14 books, and numerous articles in international journals. Raimundo Soto is Associate Professor of Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor Soto specializes in macroeconomic theory and
econometrics and has published extensively in international journals covering long-run growth, exchange rate misalignment, and monetary policy, as well as corruption, resource curse, institutions, and labor markets. He
has been visiting scholar in institutions in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America and international organizations such as the World Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Professor Soto served as President of the Chilean Economic Association and, between 2010 and 2012, he was Director of International Development at the Dubai Economic Council.