Foreign investors still shunning Middle East
Even relative safe havens such as the GCC countries have suffered from turbulence in the wider Middle East and North Africa, despite the region’s potential.
With parts of the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) reeling from the after-effects of the Arab Spring, optimism that substantial foreign investment is set to flood in anytime soon looks misplaced, agree regional veterans.
At the recent Doha Conference on Asset Management hosted by Bloomberg and the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, Abdulrahman Ahmad Al-Shaibi and Shashank Srivastava of QFC Authority struck an upbeat note. But many speakers were less positive in some of their com…
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