Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 37

13-Sep-2010

REGIONAL

GCC FDI Inflows To Improve After 2009 Decline, NBK Says

The ability of GCC countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) should improve over the medium term due to sustained oil prices and domestic economy restructuring, the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has said. In a new Economic Brief, the bank said that despite a regional 15% drop in FDI inflows in 2009 from $60.1bn in 2008 to $50.8bn investors and transnational...