تأُثير الاستثمار الاجنبي المباشر على تنافسية القطاع الصناعي بالدول العربية

Abstract EN

This research aims to study and analyze inward FDI to the Arab countries in recent years, through searching for different reasons and factors that can boost benefiting from its flows.

The Arab states need additional inflows of foreign direct investment in order to stimulate economic growth, create more job opportunities and reduce poverty in addition to the urgent need for the modern technological procedures.

Analyzing the features of inward FDI to the Arab countries showed that the latter have succeeded in making record achievements in terms of attracting foreign direct investment during the period (2005-2009), where FDI inflows towards countries in this region during this period jumped to about 376 billion dollars, the equivalent offive times the total inflows during the past five years, with doubledinter- Arabdirect investment flows during the same period to about 129 billion dollars exceeding seventimes total flows of the same period.

However, the Arab region's share of total global flows is still small compared to the share of other economic regions, and has not yet attained the desired size given the financing needs of the countries in this region, although it improved significantly to 7% in 2009 compared to only 0.4% in 2000, before dropping to 3.53 in 2012, besides the numerous reservations on sectorial and geographical distribution of those flows, which indicates the presence of some obstacles that have not yet been completely removed