Abstract
Countries of the Arab Gulf benefit from the high incomes they get from the mining and the selling of natural oil and gas that the ground offers them. Those high incomes, combined with their small population explains why the income per inhabitant is higher than in the other states. According to Bloomberg Agency, Gulf countries have invested more than 150 billion dollars abroad in 2009. This investment is not limited to the Middle East area, yet Gulf investments represent a huge part of global investments in the wider region. Then in those conditions, can we consider Gulf investment as a significant driver of economic development in the wider region?
