VOL. XLVI

No 39

29-September-2003

TRADE AND COMMERCE

FDI Flows To MENA Region Decline During 2002

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stood at $4.553bn in 2002, a fall of 32.7% from the 2001 figure of $6.767bn, according to the latest World Development Report (WDR) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued on 4 September (see Tables below). The FDI inflows to the MENA region made up only 0.007% of total world FDI...