Top Reasons to Invest In Dubai
100% Business Ownership
Being an attractive and dynamic business launch location, Dubai now welcomes foreign investors to fully own their mainland business, in a significant amendment to a decades-old Commercial Companies Law, stipulating that an Emirati national must be the majority shareholder with 51% of the shares, while foreign investors could only own up to 49%.
The lifting of restrictions on foreign investment ownership continues a series of measures aimed at empowering not only an investor-centric, and innovation-driven economy but also one that is responsive and agile.
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Resilient and Dynamic Economy
With an aim to make the city a dynamic engine of economic growth, the strategic plans laid out by the government have enabled Dubai to become a diversified, investor-centric, and innovation-driven economy.
Ranked 1st in employment growth, 2nd in youth unemployment and employment rate, and 8th in the diversification of the economy globally, Dubai has earned a reputation for its political, social, and economic stability, making it one of the world’s most attractive places to do business. A stable macro-economic environment, sustainable economic policies, and superior growth strategies have fueled Dubai’s outstanding economic performance and diversification.
Smart City Incubating Innovation
Enables a culture of innovation and digitization becoming a home to the Middle East’s First Unicorn.
The Government of Dubai promotes digitization and innovation through policies that cater to innovators, start-ups, incubators, and SMEs. An entrepreneur-friendly culture and a host of strategic initiatives brings together stakeholders such as policymakers, enterprises, academia, business, and the financial sector need to harness the power of digital innovation.
Dubai has led the move in cultivating a culture of innovation and digitization and its continual application and adoption by commerce and industry ecosystems.
Dubai ranks 1st in the levels of technology employed, dedicated cyber-security teams, scientific and technical employment, and internet users. As a testament to this, Microsoft and Oracle have recently opened their regional cloud data centers in Dubai.
Empowering Institutions
Dubai’s rapid pace of development is underpinned by a transparent, reliable, and dynamic regulatory framework that serves as a platform for growth.
Dubai’s public institutions competently, seamlessly, and expeditiously enforce and monitor implementation of the regulations and policies, particularly in the aspects that facilitate the investor journey. Owing to these strides, Dubai ranks 13th among 190 economies in protecting minority investors and 9th among 190 economies in enforcing contracts.
Policy is matched to business requirements to ensure economic growth in key sectors and to deliver a world-class investor experience. The backbone of this is a collaborative policy-making approach, that leads to a host of public-private partnerships, ensuring that Dubai is investor friendly, oriented to supporting profitable growth and protecting intellectual property.
Connecting Worlds
Dubai is uniquely blessed with a geographical position that makes it the center of the physical world. Dubai has built on this advantage by providing efficient connections to key growth markets – regionally and globally.
With future-ready airports and ports providing access to two-thirds of the world’s most attractive growth markets, Dubai has developed active gateways into the region for business, commerce, and tourism.