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You have to give credit to Sheik Mohammed for what he has accomplished. Dubai is not like other arab countries which get money from petrol. It built itself into
by minhajuddin 14y ago
You have to give credit to Sheik Mohammed for what he has accomplished. Dubai is not like other arab countries which get money from petrol. It built itself into a city which everyone in the world knows, that too in a very short span of time.
- iwwr 14y agoAlso under a lot of debt. Dubai had to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi. Sheik Mohammed doesn't call the shots in his city anymore. Remember the fallacy of the unseen. It's easy to marvel at what has been built (albeit at a net loss) and forget the alternate uses of those resources.
- mun2mun 14y agoI would have praised him if he have made universities that are on par with Stanford, MIT (which would have cost 1/10th of cost of current development). They have seen shinny Vagus but failed to see why they shine.
- mseebach 14y agoRegrettably, there's more to great universities than throwing money at it. It's important to remember that the country has no educational history. 50 years ago the few inhabitants there were barely literate, and few of those who could read had ever read anything but the Quran. That said, Abu Dhabi is actually trying to do just that. They're buying off entire departments of western universities, offering generous research grants if the department is relocated to Abu Dhabi. The idea is to bootstrap a tradition of higher education.