الحماية الجزائية للمستثمر الأجنبي ودورها كأحد محددات تدفقات الاستثمار الأجنبي الي سلطنة عمان

الملخص EN

Nowadays, most countries around the world formulates proper policies in order to attract foreign direct investment.

Foreign direct investment supplement domestic investment and boost economic growth of national economies.

Therefore, countries are competing to create an attractive environment for the foreign investor who in turn, looks to concessions and guarantees against non-commercial risks, and wishes to avoid unnecessary administrative and procedural obstacles, taking into account not to prejudice national goals.

The research aims to explain what foreign investment is under the Omani investment law, and to explain the guarantees and incentives granted by this law, and to settle disputes arising from investment contracts and special penal protection as a result of the legal violation of investment issues, and then the way to analyze the performance of foreign direct investment incoming to the Sultanate in in the light of legislative and institutional reforms.

Therefore, the importance of the research is to introduce the legal determinant as an important determinant of foreign direct investment, along with defining the legal framework for the penal liability of foreign direct investment in the Sultanate of Oman.

By analyzing the foreign investment data received from international official sources, it shows the significant improvement in the numbers of foreign investments flowing into the Sultanate, especially in recent years, which witnessed many amendments in the investment laws and attention to penal and legal protection for the foreign investor.

The paper concludes that there should be a periodic review of foreign investment laws in which the duties and rights of the investors are precisely defined.