Abstract

Facing developing countries in general and Arab countries in particular problems and obstacles in its ability to provide domestic capital sufficient to achieve an acceptable level of investment to natural and human resources, most of the Arab countries suffer from low average per capita GNP as well as low and declining growth rates compared with states advanced, not to mention widespread problems of poverty, unemployment and high inflation and economic and social problems other a lot, and as a result had most of the Arab countries in the last decades of the last century to rely on foreign capital as a means to support their local resources and achieve growth rates of appropriate economic, and address the problems of the deficit in the balance payments and trade balance and the state budget, and it was for foreign direct investment of great importance in being a source of financing for development in these countries as well as being a source of transfer of modern technology and technical skills through the multinational corporations that are investing in these countries in various fields and various projects, which provides host countries if they did well to use and guide those investments an opportunity to address its economic problems and develop the growth of various sectors .