Even if News Corp does start charging and others follow suit, analysts say doing a U-turn on the free news model will be hard to pull off.

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Yet the efficiency cornucopia is the manual model: You have to turn the crank.

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But the Gulf's most dynamic and diverse economy, and the model that its neighbours increasingly turn to, is the tiny city-state of Dubai.

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