The legal autonomy of the Dubai International Financial Centre: A scalable strategy for global free-market reforms

Economic Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 36-41

  Strong, Michael ^a   Himber, Robert ^a  

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Author keywords

Common law; Dubai; Freezone; Islam

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949135437     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: 14680270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01891.x     Document Type: Article

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