Author Afshin Molavi examines the UAE's recently announced "Projects of the 50", an ambitious fifty-year set of initiatives to guide the country’s development over the next five decades – in light of the history of competition among nations, present-day competition with regional peers, and the U.A.E.’s position in the global economy. And it is great to see The Netherlands and Luxembourg in the UAE’s 10x10 focus group for exports (page 6). http://usuaebusiness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AnalyticPaper_UAEProjectsof50_Web6.pdf