WEATHERING THE COVID STORM: WHY THE UAE IS LOOKING INCREASINGLY BETTER FOR POTENTIAL INVESTORS
The investment landscape has, for the past year, been characterised by uncertainty. It does not take a degree in economics to recognise that global pandemics, and their associated social restrictions, do not cultivate a desire for reckless speculation or needless risk-taking. It is doubtless for this reason that, according to a recent report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, global foreign direct investment (FDI) suffered a total collapse during the course of 2020. The fall of 42% took total FDI from $1.5 trillion in 2019 to approximately $859 billion.
