Case Study

Case Study III

“The Dubai Model of Development”

Answer 1.

The author defines a developmental state by highlighting the following key points as the basis of this study:

The most significant aspect of Dubai's developmental progress woes to the conscious policies undertaken and implemented by the decision-makers in keeping pace with the developed world.

The process of developmental growth for Dubai is a multi-causal effects, which means several factors combine together to assume benefits and progress for the state.

Not a single factor can be attributed to a single factor but the implementation of multiple economic, institutional, political, social and cultural explanations can be given for this process of development.

Changes in the country's cityscape and rapid developments in the GDP per capita growth further led the country to compete with global players in an endeavor to attain sustainability in the long run.

One of the most glorifying aspects to explain this process of developmental progress for Dubai tends to be closely related to state interventions that took place in various economic and cultural spheres.

The interdependence between states has been growing for several decades, is also growing among local and international levels. What it becomes difficult to state recalibrated in this new landscape.

The crisis of governance can be seen at all levels, from local to their inability to manage their lands in an integrated way, to global, with the difficulty of allowing the emergence of legitimate global governance to globalization of the market. Neither central planning nor the disengagement of the state, which came from the base of neoconservative opinion no longer rise to a development model adapted to the needs of populations.

Answer 2.

Before answering “neo-Patrimonialism”, let us first discuss how Patrimonialism, in a general sense, affects an economy. The predominant behavior of neo-patrimonial state explains the basis of the war in Africa, because it would favor the domination of political rationality on economic rationality and produce far-reaching consequences, creating unfavorable conditions to growth and creating an institutional system of incentives that would generalize behavior research annuity and corruption.

Patrimonialism is a common feature of the political culture of the Gulf since many years. The concept is not a new one.

Patrimonialism revolves around the concept of offering “patronage” by a single ruler around the ones who compose of his kingdom. It is not a means to achieve dictatorship, rather aimed at acting as a leader to distribute the resources and share the benefits with the followers.

Patrimonialism played an important role in shifting Dubai form a production state to an allocation state. Rentier states is defined as a group of predatory, imperialist states as well as financial oligarchy monopoly profits within their country, which is enriched at the expense of other states, especially the underdeveloped and dependent nations.

Rentier state is one of the manifestations of decay and parasitism of modern capitalism and appears as one of the causes of the contradictions of the latter, which is more acute.

The origin of the term is directly linked to the consolidation in the ...