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Qatar punches above its weight.
For a small country, Qatar certainly makes a lot of headlines. Apart from its strategic position in the recent war in Iraq and its role as host of Arab satellite television station Al Jazeera, the Gulf emirate has become famous for two main things. Firstly, for possessing the world's biggest non-associated gas field and developing a huge liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector, which has provided a level of diversification away from oil revenues. And secondly, for the reforming zeal of the country's leader, Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who seems eager to turn Qatar into the first genuine democracy in th...
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