خريطة الاستثمار الأجنبي المباشر في منطقة الخليج العربي : الحدود الجغرافية و القطاعية دراسة تحليلية لحالة السعودية، الإمارات و قطر (1995-2020)‎

Abstract EN

O53The study aimed to analyze the volume of foreign direct investment flows in the Arab Gulf region during the period (1995-2019), and determine its trends geographically (source) and sectorally (destination) in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar.

And both Saudi Arabia and the UAE occupy a large area in the map of foreign direct investment in the region, while Qatar occupies the third place, and geographically in Saudi Arabia, the most American ones, then the French, Japanese and the UAE, and in the Emirates came from India, then the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany As for Qatar, it was from the United States of America, then Bahrain, Japan, South Africa and the UAE.

The most attractive sectors in Saudi Arabia were the chemical industry, coal, oil and natural gas, then real estate.

In the UAE, the real estate sector was coal, oil and natural gas, then hotels and tourism.

As for Qatar, it may export coal, oil and natural gas, then real estate, hotels, tourism and the chemical industry.

Key words: External financing, investment, FDI, geographical distribution, sectoral distribution.

Classification JEL: F21, F30, O53