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Franchise expansion initiatives represent a structural mechanism through which GCC economies diversify revenue streams beyond hydrocarbon sectors and develop service-sector exports—a pattern observed across Oman's economic diversification strategy and broader regional efforts to build knowledge-intensive, replicable business models. The Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry's franchise programme framework reflects historical precedent in Gulf markets where state and private-sector institutions collaborate to scale domestic enterprises regionally and internationally, creating supply-chain and employment multiplier effects. Such initiatives typically correlate with broader GCC macroeconomic cycles of trade liberalization, foreign direct investment inflows, and small-to-medium enterprise (SME
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