A century ago, Dubai was a tranquil town whose coral and gypsum huts housed Bedouin traders and pearl divers. Today the merchants have gone international with skyscrapers standing alongside the mosques and wind towers of Old Dubai. The ambition of the city's rulers has included building artificial islands with 120km of new beachfront and an award-winning international airline.
Subject Focus:
- KS 5: How local markets affect large corporations.
- KS 5: Compare and contrast ways of doing business within the Middle East.
- KS 5: Identify key factors that make an organisation successful.
- KS 5: Understand the responsibility large businesses have on a global economy.
Student Outcomes:
- Understand how the discovery of oil has affected the local economy.
- Explore the possibilities of doing business in a Middle Eastern organisation.
- Place the role of stock markets and commodities in economies.
- Appreciate the scale and structure of global trading patterns and their role in national and global economies.
