{"id":51625,"date":"2015-07-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/foreign-direct-investments-decline-8-in-the-arab-world\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:58:19","slug":"foreign-direct-investments-decline-8-in-the-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/foreign-direct-investments-decline-8-in-the-arab-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign direct investments decline 8% in the Arab world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Foreign direct investments in the Arab world totaled US$ 43.9 billion last year, a decline of 8% over 2013, according to a report released by the Arab investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, multilateral institution based in Kuwait. The information was published this Monday (27th) by the news agency <em>France Presse (AFP)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>AFP<\/em>, the total of FDIs attracted by the region&rsquo;s countries continues to be significantly lower to the US$ 66.2 billion registered in 2010, before the political upheavals of the Arab Spring, which took place in 2011. The United Arab Emirates was the country that received more resources in 2014, with a total of US$ 10.1 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia with US$ 8 billion, and Egypt with US$ 4.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_9_708180_2]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates was the country that received more resources in 2014, with a total of US$ 10.1 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia with US$ 8 billion, and Egypt with US$ 4.8 billion. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>AFP<\/em>, the report brings data from 20 of the 22 country members of the Arab League, with the exception being Comoros Islands and the war-torn Syria. The FDI flow declined in 15 of them. <\/p>\n<p>The agency adds that the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) received almost half of the resources that entered the Arab nations last year. The bloc is formed by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman, all of them oil-rich countries. <\/p>\n<p>In turn, the foreign direct investments made by Arab countries abroad totaled US$ 33.4 billion in 2014, a decline of 10% over 2013. With US$ 13 billion, Kuwait was the nation in the region that invested the most abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-179115\">Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countries in the region received US$ 43.9 billion last year. The United Arab Emirates were the main destination for the resources, with Kuwait as the largest investor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":179115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The countries in the region received US$ 43.9 billion last year. The United Arab Emirates were the main destination for the resources, with Kuwait as the largest investor.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}