Sunday 1 May 2011

BBC News - Tiny Qatar's growing global clout

Qatar is one of the smallest - but richest - countries in the world, and has now emerged as a rising star of the Middle East, says The World Tonight's Robin Lustig in Doha.

It is a tiny nation with a population of just 1.7 million inhabitants, only 300,000 of whom are citizens. But put it in a list of countries measured according to per capita income, and Qatar comes top.

Now it could be emerging as a potential leader of the Arab world.

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