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Geography, cash and confidence will decide who recovers, and who drifts
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Governments are nudging them, but it’ll be messy

Although many of their investments have a commercial logic, the result looks increasingly unwieldy

Post-war reconstruction and efforts to diversify production will present big opportunities

Residual risks and ruined infrastructure will keep prices high

Can the emirate keep people and investors coming?

The region’s rulers want to reduce their dependence on Western arms