This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows and their macroeconomic determinants in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the period 1970-2010. Using recent panel data techniques, we take into account the both hypothesis economic...

Middle East and North Africa Investment Policy Perspectives highlights the considerable progress in investment policies made by the region’s governments over the past decade. Yet, the reform momentum needs to be sustained and deepened for the benefits of investment to be shared with society at...

After a long period in which state-led development was the dominant economic paradigm, since the 1980s private sector development has been the focus for economic policy makers. It is probably no coincidence that economic growth, stagnant for a few decades in much of the developing world, took...