As Europe continues to flouder, the Middle East is still seeing GDP growth. Pui-Guan Man eyes up the region’s benefits

Competing against countries from Europe, South America and Asia, Dubai’s bid to host the World Expo in 2020 is redolent of the growth in prominence of the Middle East in recent years. With the emirate pitching to bring the exhibition to the Middle East for the first time, delegates at Legal Week‘s Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East suggested the bid was symbolic of increasing scrutiny on how Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries stack up against markets in Europe and Asia on the wider business stage.

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