Interesting read on the UAE using social reforms to try and prop up a slagging economy. Time will tell but I suspect that as the world starts to rely on other forms of energy that other gulf states will have to rebrand themselves.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uae-law-expats-1.5809209
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uae-law-expats-1.5809209