Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to MENA Region: Does One “Best” Fit All?

Wasseem Mina ()

International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU from International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Abstract: The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches to property rights protection and empirically examines it in the context of FDI flows to the MENA region. Using panel data on 11 MENA countries for the period 1991-2007 and adopting FGLS methodology,the paper finds a positive influence of improvement in the risk of investment expropriationin non-GCC MENA countries and of bilateral investment treaties in GCC countries. The joint influence of domestic institutional functions and bilateral investment treaties is positive in specifications containing investment expropriation risk and government stability in non-GCC MENA countries, and corruption in GCC countries. Results have important policy implications for the institutional reform approach to be adopted.

Keywords: Property rights protection; bilateral investment treaties; FDI; institutional reforms; MENA; heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2010-12-01
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