Today, the state is passing through a completely different stage from what it was 20 or 30 years ago. The stage today is a stage with which our experiences and economic performance have matured, and the UAE today is the second largest Arab economy, and an influential and heavy country in its economic weight regionally and globally, and at the level of infrastructure, it is classified among the best And the finest countries in their infrastructure, and in their encouraging investment environment, so they are now the center of competition for the world's companies to gain a foothold, the benefits of investment and profits here are high and encouraging.
Therefore, we must now seek to increase the attracting of huge companies and increase the attracting of capital, this is an indisputable matter, but we must not forget our interest in that, and our interest lies in the direct benefits that our economy will gain from external investment, and not only in increasing the number of large companies Without paying attention to the reflection of its real positive impact on the economy, and on the state in general!
We must look at the existence of the real benefits of foreign investment, and this is what many countries of the world seek, if not all of them. They aim behind encouraging efforts to flow foreign direct investment to benefit from the technology and technical and administrative knowledge that foreign companies possess, as some countries It may have the funds necessary to set up projects, but the lack of modern technology prevents the implementation of those projects, and therefore it opens its doors to foreign investment in a desire to benefit from it technologically.
This is an aspect, but in general, the benefits of foreign investment are many, including, for example, training and employing local workers who have job opportunities at branches of foreign companies, and acquiring modern technological skills, and workers in these branches transfer and use their skills, and their scientific, technical and administrative knowledge, to National companies when joining to work.
Scientific relations between foreign companies' branches and local centers for scientific research and development are also strengthened, which leads to the acquisition of these centers the latest technology developed by international companies in production and manufacturing, in addition to the branches of multinational companies providing the needs of national companies with machinery Equipment and technical assistance on favorable terms in the local market, allowing national companies the opportunity to produce goods with international specifications, and thus the ability to export their products to foreign markets.
More importantly, it is the addition of foreign investments to the capital formation of the economies of countries, compensating for the lack of domestic savings as a result of the renewed flow of these investments or reinvesting their returns, and bridging the gap between revenues and public expenditures, as these investments lead to the host country obtaining new revenues that increase its potential for spending , And then bridging your revenue gap.
These are some of the benefits of foreign investment and its flows, and we now have to ensure the size of our direct benefit as a result of all the facilities and benefits that we provide to investors, certainly we will not achieve all the benefits, but at the very least, we do not leave the largest share out of our hands, and we are content with seeking to increase the number of polarized companies only, Without paying attention to the magnitude of its positive impact on us, because foreign investment, as it has many positives, has, in return for all negative positives, if countries do not seek to create a balance between their interest and the investor’s interest.
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