Engines of Growth: The Middle East's most important companies

13 March 2009, 0:00 GMT

Six years of incredible growth in the Gulf came to a shuddering halt in the final quarter of 2008, when the full impact of the global financial crisis and the subsequent slowdown in the global economy hit the region.

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