But like in many disaster zones, authorities expected the worst, with the vast majority of civilians still without access to water, food, shelter or power.
Meanwhile, officials at the export zone authority have blacklisted him from being hired at factories inside the zones.
Although the notionally independent free zone authority will regulate Saadiyat under a clear and exhaustive set of rules, it has yet to prove itself.At least until Saadiyat takes off, foreigners will prefer to live in Dubai.
"The south is absolutely more dynamic and creative than the north, but only in the short term," said Nguyen Chon Trung, vice chairman of Ho Chi Minh City's industrial zone authority.
If true contagion spread, however, it would force the hand of the euro-zone authorities.
In 2005 some 60% of firms in Indian SEZs reported having to make "irregular" payments to zone authorities.
The idea is simple enough: transfer the task of supervising banks and winding up weak ones from national to euro-zone authorities.
Finally, it wants the euro zone authorities to be prepared to inject capital directly into troubled banks and to accompany that with stronger Europe-wide supervision of lenders.
The euro-zone authorities want to appear as indifferent as possible to Greece's situation so as to extract the maximum amount of cooperation from the Greek authorities and the electorate.
While discussion of contagion may seem very 2008, the problems with Greece, which faces a huge fiscal deficit, are becoming tougher for the euro-zone authorities to leave uninsured.
In practice, however, it would involve a large transfer of sovereignty to give the central euro-zone authorities the scope to raise money, regulate banks and prevent errant fiscal policy.
