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Could Djibouti be the next Dubai?

Penny Brooks

25th June 2015

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This little story on today's BBC Business News combines many of the elements of constraints on development and policies to help promote growth and development which we teach at A2.

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Penny Brooks

Formerly Head of Business and Economics and now Economics teacher, Business and Economics blogger and presenter for Tutor2u, and private tutor

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