Investment Policies

Meetings
Reference material

Working Group 1 (WG1) helps MENA countries to develop open and transparent investment policies through multi-stakeholder dialogue, experience-sharing and capacity-building in the region, with the support of OECD countries and other partners. WG1 also aims at improving integrity of business transactions in order to reduce uncertainty and risk to domestic and foreign investors in the region.

Five outputs have been agreed upon as results of the WG meetings: (i) Synthesis report on regulatory treatment of international investment in MENA countries, (ii) working with investment treaties, (iii) promoting integrity in business transactions, (iv) assessing incentive-based strategies to attract investment to the MENA region, and (v) improving international investment statistics.

Meetings

12-13 September 2005, Manama, Bahrain:

• Draft agenda
• Information Note

1-2 February 2005, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 

• Draft agenda
• List of participants
• Meeting conclusions
• Taking Responsibility for World Corruption: OECD Countries’ Experience in Combating Bribery and Promoting Trade and Investment World-Wide, Frédéric Wehrlé, OECD
• Curbing Bribery and Promoting Trade and Investment World-Wide: Characteristic Features of the OECD Anti-Bribery Work, OECD
• OECD Strategy on Investment for Development and the MENA Investment Programme, Rainer Geiger, OECD