1.7 trillion dollars of foreign investment in the world B2017

The global economy is going through for years in any uncertainty overshadowed the scene of the year, amid a marked divergence in growth prospects and directions of the main investment around the world. And pulled it on a number of major institutions, like the International Monetary Fund, which was signed in January (last January) growth of less than 3 percent of the global economy this year, and then returned a few days later and predicted growth of more than 3%.

Under the prevailing situation, held Sharjah forum for foreign direct investment in 2016, which has sponsored Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, organized by the Sharjah Authority for Investment and Development (Sunrise) in collaboration with the "Financial Times" the British, the "Foreign Investment Magazine direct "on 28 and 29 this month, and according to the newspaper" life ".

According to the annual report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2015, the global FDI flows in 2014 declined by 16 percent more than in 2013, falling from $ 1.47 trillion to 1.23 trillion, but the prospects for recovery big in 2015 and future years, He pointed out that the Middle East and one of the most optimistic regions of Africa region to increase foreign direct investment activity in the coming years.

Annual report of "UNCTAD" and predicted that foreign direct investment worldwide for the years 2015 - 2017 will witness a steady growth, since it is likely that it grew by 11% to reach $ 1.4 trillion in 2015, and is expected reaching 1.5 trillion (5.5 trillion dirhams) this year, for up to $ 1.7 trillion in 2017, it underlines the importance of the forum in this particular time, in line rally expected in global investment flows.

Conference sheds light on the outlook for the global economy and the magnitude of the opportunities and face the challenges ahead, as the review group of experts and economists at the forum orientations of the main investment sectors in the world and offer their view of what the importance of focusing on the positive points where, and how to maintain a sustainable growth rates in light of various challenges.

The first reviews the day of the conference, the investment structure in the region and the extent of its attractiveness to international capital, and the most prominent sectors of concern to the international companies to enter into, and provides an analytical overview of the size of investments, which is expected to be in the region over the coming years, and the factors that help promote these investments and status.

And witness the second day of the Forum to organize a panel discussion entitled "Investment trends - What are the prospects for foreign direct investment in the Middle East and the United Arab Emirates in the next year?", To discuss the role of foreign direct investment in the global economy, and evaluate the growth and challenges in front of trends, as well as engines and advantages competitive major cities when it comes to the globalization of innovation.

The executive director of the Sharjah Investment and Development Marwan bin Jassim Al Serkal: "Sharjah forum for foreign direct investment highlights this year highlighted a number of the most important economic issues at the local, regional and international arena, with the participation of a group of experts, financial analysts and decision makers, to get out a number of recommendations with regard, in order to achieve a quantum leap in the economic process outputs, simplifying procedures and providing the necessary solutions to the challenges. "

He added: "passes the global economy since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, through a period of volatility swept from time to time, resulting in a series of extraordinary challenges that decades ago the world did not know, and that directly affected the movement of global foreign investment, and changed the safe havens, and it raised the rates of risk in the movement of capital across the border to unprecedented rates. in these volatile circumstances, emerged as the United Arab Emirates and the Emirate of Sharjah as the seven drivers of economic growth in the country as an investment destination safe succeeded in attracting capital from the east of the world and the west, and become businessmen and investors strategic platform for researchers with a unique climate environment that allows for superior returns on invested capital