Revue internationale des sciences économiques et de gestion

Performance telecommunications, institutional quality and FDI: application panel data for the MENA Zone

Abstract

Hela Bouras

This article try to detect and analyze the interaction of attractiveness of FDI and the role of ICTs, specifically telecommunications as a key factor in increasing FDI flows. The theoretical approach, a particular interest in the theory of knowledge economy and the theory of New Institutional Economics, and to detect factors attractivités FDI and the mechanisms through which ICT will attract more foreign investors. The method used is an OLS estimation. In our study, we will discuss the relevance of such expectations for the MENA region. we will identify and analyze the interaction of attractiveness for FDI and the role of ICT, Telecommunications precisely, as a factor in the increase in FDI flows. In addition, our work is of particular interest to the economic theory of knowledge and the theory of New Institutional Economics, and to detect factors attractivities FDI and the mechanisms through which ICT will attract more foreign investors.