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Property rights protection and FDI flows: The MENA experience

Steps towards better foreign direct investment flows

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Bilateral investment treaties are contracted to strengthen property rights protection and reduce political risk. This paper examines how property rights protection institutions and bilateral investment treaties affect Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to the MENA region. The author highlights that the empirical results of the study show how human resources and world oil price are important to FDI flows in the MENA. He also considers in his study four dimensions of Property Rights Protection based on the International Country Risk Guide’s political risk index: investment profile, corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy quality. From the findings he concludes that reducing the expropriation of private investments by the government appears to encourage foreign investors to target MENA countries.

 

 

Last updated Monday, June 17, 2013

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