Yasser Al-Saleh is a faculty member at the MBRSG (formerly the Dubai School of Government). He has published several books and academic papers on the Middle East, and is the author of The Prospects for Sustainable Energy Innovation within Oil-Rich Gulf Cooperation Council and the co-editor of Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource-Rich Countries.
As governments across the Middle East try to wean themselves off natural resources and build diversified, resilient economies, they should take some lessons from Dubai. In less than a generation, the … read more
In recent years, calls to replace conventional “brown” economic development with a lower-carbon “green growth" model have been growing increasingly loud. But there is a third, more competitive option… read more
