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Abu Dhabi expected to prop up smaller brother

By Andrew England in Abu Dhabi and Simeon Kerr in Dubai

Published: November 27 2009 19:25 | Last updated: November 27 2009 19:25

Since the full scale of Dubai’s huge debt mountain hit home late last year, many investors who have sunk billions of dollars into the emirate’s extravagant projects have been turning their heads to the UAE’s capital for reassurance.

For years, as Dubai built one grandiose scheme after another there was the assumption – unwritten but widely believed – that Abu Dhabi would be on hand to pick up the pieces if the emirate’s bubble burst.

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