Lets agree to disagree ... Lets see how the future gets shape up ...
In my previous role I was looking at revenues of APP (Arabian Penunsila and Pakistan) and we had a consistent revenue drop in our revenues despite of being market leaders except for our monopoly product and the reason of decline in our revenue was due to decline in business activities of our Clients (all the multinatinationals in FMCG, Telecom sector and in gov as well are our Clients and we ourselves were a fortune 500 company) ... Previously our overall growth target was focused on middle east but now we were consistently underperforming against budgets ... Most notably our social sector (gov projects + NGOs) business was on declining trends as both of the governments were continuously in budget constraints ...
I wish that our middle east brothers get strong economy but unfortunately gulf economy is oil-driven and only KSA is involved in the manufacturing of licensed products mostly,,, there is no R&D, designing and original products and nor the need is being felt ...
The issue of our Gulf state is with such a high standard of living they do not have Plan B yet (except for Dubai) for keeping the economy at such a high level in the post-oil world ... With regards to Dubai, it is too much dependant on external factors, external workforce, external companies, only service sector with such a huge expenditure ... Like crisis of 2009 leads to a situation where UAE was unable to meet both ends meets ... I understand you don't know me, therefore, my opinion does not matter to you but I am posting an analysis of Reuters for you :
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-e...-billion-of-dubais-debt-idUSBREA2F0EQ20140316