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Fueled by oil, the country's economy was more like that of an Arabian emirate than a Central African nation.

The emirate does not say how much its fund is worth. Estimates are between five hundred billion and nine hundred billion dollars.

In effect the emirate wants to create a good bank and a bad bank out of the state-owned conglomerate.

Third, it has an unusually independent foreign policy, which has turned the emirate into a diplomatic hub.

In Europe, banking stocks fell amid concern that the value of loans to the emirate would have to be written sharply lower.

Tourism is an important part of the Dubai government's strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the emirate.

Legally, moreover, the emirate is at liberty to refuse to backstop the company.

Jihadist groups (sometimes claiming to be "al-Qaeda in the Sinai peninsula" ) have called for the creation of an Islamic emirate.

Perhaps the appointment of a member of the emirate's ruling family as the channel's new chief will curb such enthusiasm.

This could be a further boost to the emirate, which has already come to the rescue of its debt-laden neighbour, Dubai.

Dubai is suffering from a slump in the trading, lending, holidaying and profiteering that buoyed this remarkable emirate for so long.

In attempting to resolve Dubai World's debt woes in an equitable way, the emirate clearly has an eye on its longer-term refinancing needs.

But Dubai, which has no oil, was backed by its Arab emirate neighbors.

The emirate was funding the translation of 100 books a year into Arabic, because nobody else would.

One banker describes the emirate as an "integrated service industry, no different from a very large Euro Disney" .

The announcement threw the emirate and the global credit markets into a vertiginous free fall.

The trigger was the debt standstill sought by Nakheel, the Dubai developer behind many of the emirate's flashiest construction projects.

Value is more likely to be preserved for debtholders and for the emirate itself.

The government imposes few levies (Dubai has no income tax) and accounts for only $10 billion of the emirate's debts.

As such, the emirate is set to become Glencore's largest shareholder, after the company's employees.

But events this week have damaged its reputation for economic competence, which the emirate's rulers will now have to work hard to restore.

Long ago, the Emirate's ruler recognized that it would have to find another source of income as its oil reserves were depleted.

The department is answerable to the emirate of Abu Dhabi and is not a federal policy-making body.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates are in the area of seven second-largest emirate (after Abu Dhabi), United Arab Emirates are the economic center.

But analysts warned that concerns remained about the conglomerate's restructuring and other parts of the emirate's commercial empire.

The Masdar Institute is part of a zero-emissions city being built in Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the UAE.

The auction house now works with a range of regional collectors in the Emirate, where there are signs that the market is broadening.

Scientific and philosophical studies were disseminated through the Moorish emirate of Cordoba, Spain.

The emirate borrowed capital and labour to make speculative bets on real estate, of which The World is only one outlandish example.

The bidoun forfeit the amenities that the oil-rich emirate showers on its citizens, including education.

Dubai, located in the southern Persian Gulf on the Arabian peninsula, is both a city and an emirate in the UAE (United Arab Emirates).

Few go so far as to predict an Emirate-style crash, but talk of a "hard landing" is rife.

Online fans of the Taliban, beware: A website of the Islamic Emirate may have been hacked.

The reality: Dubai, which enjoys a reputation as the most liberal emirate in the UAE, has long sustained an underground gay community.

And with hotel rates in the emirate under pressure because of the debt restructuring debacle, tour packages look even more attractive.

When Sheikh Mohammed took over as crown prince, he assumed effective control of the emirate's economic development.

He wants an Islamic emirate of Somalia, taking in the mainly Somali parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.

Some importers now send them by sea to Dubai, where the new, freight-only Jebel Ali airport neighbours the emirate's vast port.

A. The emirate has said it has $80bn of debts, though some analysts say the true figure could be double that.

Pope told CNN the timing of Dubai's statement has once again highlighted the lack of transparency in the Emirate's financial dealings.

THE Angolan capital calls itself the "New Dubai" and there certainly are similarities with the emirate.

Haniyeh told the crowd that Hamas' goal was not to create a small emirate in Gaza.

The majority were slated for the emirate of Dubai, according to estimates by the Middle East Economic Digest, a regional projects tracker.

Aabar plans to build facilities for a regional "spaceport" in the emirate, which it hopes will attract scientific research.

The emirate also has a thriving private-sector middle class, but it consists almost entirely of foreigners.

Most notably, the RAND Qatar Policy Institute is working on reconfiguring the emirate's entire educational system.

By 2022, say the Qataris, the emirate will have railways, including a high-speed link to the islands of the neighbouring kingdom, Bahrain.

Qatar is eyeing more gas exports to China and Asia, where stronger demand can meet the tiny emirate's fast-rising gas production.

And the emirate will refocus on its traditional strengths: trade, logistics and tourism.

a Dubai court has to confirm the decision and is likely to declare any assets in the emirate off-limits.

Preferred forms of transportation run the gamut from rickshaws to first class Emirate Airways cabins.

That has boosted the emirate's position in what has become a race among wealthy Gulf states to woo prestigious seats of learning.

Another local company, Qatar Gas, will make up the remainder of the emirate's overall target.

Yet, unlike its neighbour, the emirate pursues modernising and tolerant social policies, especially via its first lady, Sheikha Mozah.

Investors now know that the state is solvent, and to distinguish between the emirate and its institutions.

First, the very fact that almost all of the emirate's labour is foreign is a boon.

The capital is based in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, reflecting the emirate's outsized wealth and power in the federation.

Martell XO, Emirate Airlines, and Raffles Beijing Hotel are among those in attendance.

China's membership was unanimously ratified by the 142-nation WTO at a meeting in the emirate of Qatar.

The Dubai Municipality is sometimes called Dubai state to distinguish it from the emirate.

With a gross domestic product of about $75bn, the emirate's state-owned companies must repay some $22bn of bonds before the end of 2011.

The emirate returned to the bond markets in September.

Twice in the 19th century, the Saudi emirate collapsed owing to struggles between brothers and cousins over who should rule.

THE economy of the Gulf emirate of Qatar is making even China's look sluggish.

Dubai is defying the odds by bringing in more than 400 tons of snow and ice to lure visitors to the Gulf Arab emirate.

A tournament built on sand: How can the tiny emirate of Qatar sustain the World Cup - the biggest show on earth?

Emirate Team New Zealand wins the first regatta of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

In Dubai, the cost of insuring the emirate's debt against default dropped to 465 basis points from 583bp.

"Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" is the period of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Afghan state full name.

And then he blew it all by invading Kuwait, the small, rich neighbouring emirate, on August 2nd 1990.

The brash emirate's Gulf neighbours quietly hoped to tempt bankers and business people to their rival financial hubs.

Falcao, 22, has rejected the chance to move to the Emirate, deciding to stay with Argentine club River Plate instead.

Weakened by such troubles, the emirate was completely overrun by a rival clan, the al-Rashids, in the 1890s.

That is the vision of Dubai, a thriving emirate on the edge of the Persian Gulf that aims to create a world-class capital market.

Dubai is the second largest emirate of the UAE, Dubai is building the world's a legend.

In next-door emirate Abu Dhabi, average home prices fell 5%.

The emirate became part of Bauchi state in 1926.

The Americans toppled the emirate [of the Taliban] and we are fighting to bring it back.

The $3. 2 million billboard will be unveiled in the Emirate next spring.

The emirate managed to raise $1. 25 billion in a two-part bond sale, which was heavily oversubscribed.

Business visitors to the capital found it chic, feudal and hospitable, like an Arab emirate;

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me through the glass of a two-side emirate

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