UAE President is ranked 56th in the magazine’s December issue, which listed 68 most powerful people in the world. In a special article, entitled ‘Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a man of difficult situations’, the magazine focused on the successful and continuous economic and cultural developments that Shaikh Khalifa has achieved and highlighted a number of key situations experienced by Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The magazine hailed the effective role of Shaikh Khalifa in guiding the UAE economy to progress and prosperity. The UAE economy is the third largest economy in the region with a GDP estimated at $230 billion, and ranked 25th in the world, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, which was recently released by The Economic Forum World.
