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UAE Business: Dubai Holding contributes 13.5% to GDP; manages AED500bn assets

August 1, 2026·Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)Economy

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GCC CONTEXT

Dubai Holding's significant contribution to UAE GDP reflects the strategic role of state-linked conglomerates in Gulf economies, where government-backed holding companies serve as anchors across real estate, hospitality, retail, and infrastructure sectors. The AED500 billion asset base underscores the concentration of capital deployment within a small number of large entities that shape sectoral dynamics, credit conditions, and foreign direct investment patterns across the emirates. Such scale-of-operation metrics are historically important benchmarks for tracking the health of diversification initiatives and non-oil economic activity in the UAE.

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