VOL. XLV

No 11

18-March-2002

CAPITAL MARKETS

Arab Countries FailTo Capture Proportionate Share Of FDI

Middle East economies continue to capture less ofthe global flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) than is proportionate totheir economic size and have failed to develop a meaningful technologicalcapacity that can ensure that investment inflows result in the transfer oftechnology. This is the broad-based conclusion of Ali T Sadekand Ali A Bolbol in a paper entitled CapitalFlows, FDI, and...