FROM HIS OFFICE high above Dubai Creek, Ibrahim Belsalah exudes an air of confidence that everything will be ready on time for the IMF/World Bank meetings in September 2003 when 14,000 politicians, bankers and journalists will descend on the emirate.
Belsalah, the general coordinator of Dubai 2003, faces a daunting logistical challenge in preparing the city state, which 30 years ago was little more than a village at the southern end of the Gulf.
For Dubai will not just be hosting a meeting in September 2003 but presenting its political and economic philosophy to the outside world.
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