Countries in the GCC have made significant efforts to diversify its economy over the past decade, making them less dependent on the export of commodities and changes in market prices. The UAE (like Oman and Qatar) has been at the vanguard in its diversification into non-oil sectors such as renewable energy, healthcare, higher education, tourism and hospitality, ICT, water, and space technology where it seeks to be globally competitive. In this regard, the research seeks to measure the competitiveness of these growth sectors versus those countries the UAE is competing against, and that have an established track record of highly competitive sectors (e.g., Germany in renewable energy, the US and Singapore in ICT and Healthcare, etc.).
