This thesis will show the economic growth of the United Arab Emirates, it will also go through how they changed from the past to the present. What strategies they went through, it will also explain the story behind the oil hypothesis. Numbers and figures will show how they flipped it to their own advantage not like the other gcc countries. UAE went global after knowing there ways to develop with the phase of natural resources, it has large reserves of resources which were took in consideration and knew what should be done with them in the beginning, nowadays the UAE is a country that does not fully depend on the massive reserve of natural resources for the growth of its economy because sooner or later these massive natural resources will come to an end, so UAE took another way by developing and improving its businesses inside and outside the country.