{"id":101525,"date":"2025-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/cabinet-approves-national-investment-strategy-targeting-aed-240-bn-in-fdi-flows\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T00:00:00","slug":"cabinet-approves-national-investment-strategy-targeting-aed-240-bn-in-fdi-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/03\/11\/cabinet-approves-national-investment-strategy-targeting-aed-240-bn-in-fdi-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves national investment strategy, targeting AED 240 bn in FDI flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>The cabinet approved the country\u2019s new national investment strat<\/strong><strong>egy for the next six years <\/strong>at its meeting yesterday, and approved several new initiatives, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/article\/bilg5cy-uae-cabinet-approves-national-investment-strategy\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Wam<\/a> reports. The new investment strategy targets boosting the total stock of foreign investments to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/929ca26b-e1c9-4084-b09f-4bc4f7d4a813\/uae-unveils-new-strategy-to-triple-fdi-by-2031\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">AED 2.2 tn<\/a> by 2031, and annual FDI flows to AED 240 bn. This will see the share of FDI in total investments increase to above 30%, while FDI will contribute 8% of total GDP. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>REMEMBER- <\/strong>FDI inflows came in at AED 112 bn in 2023. Dubai\u2019s greenfield FDI projects alone attracted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/edition\/am\/6b665087-e864-4545-b2fd-8fba4d240675\/dubai-tops-greenfield-fdi-flows-in-2024\/96e6f92a-3ed6-4cae-8892-1f3a3cc34c84\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">AED 52.3 bn in capital in 2024<\/a>, while the value of UAE greenfield FDI projects fell 33% y-o-y to USD 14.5 bn (AED 53.2 bn) in 2024, normalizing after a particularly strong 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>ALSO APPROVED AT THE MEETING- <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>national policy<\/strong> for combating <strong>health risk<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>new <strong>regulations for organ and human tissue donation<\/strong> and <strong>transplantation<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>allowing <strong>federal employees to work from abroad<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>establishing a <strong>pharma policies committee<\/strong> to be headed by Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi;<\/li>\n<li>and restructure the<strong> Emirates Research and Development Council <\/strong>and the Postal Regulatory Committee. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Three new CEPAs:<\/strong> The cabinet ratified three comprehensive economic partnership agreements (CEPA) with Malaysia, New Zealand, and Kenya. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE is aiming to reach AED 2.2 tn in FDI inflows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1559],"tags":[14,408,1342],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-101525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabinet-watch","tag-cabinet-watch","tag-fdi","tag-investment","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"2f739bca-cf67-4556-aa86-024f3c4c8112","order":"9","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/3\/802.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Cabinet approves national investment strategy, targeting AED 240 bn in FDI flows","related_issue":[101509],"teaser":"The UAE is aiming to reach AED 2.2 tn in FDI inflows","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/3\/.2c26cfff-f148-42ca-8d35-64231d38b62b.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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