Opinion: Visibility is the best part of Dubai’s debt deal

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Opinion: Visibility is the best part of Dubai’s debt deal

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Dubai’s rollover of $20bn in debt with the UAE central bank and Abu Dhabi has banished the last spectres of the 2009 Dubai World crisis. But while its new found breathing room makes the emirate a very attractive proposition, what Dubai chooses to do with this should be the litmus test for foreign investors.

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