Introduction

This contribution revisits the current intra-Arab regional framework for investment, its complexity and problems. It also proposes some ideas with a view to harmonize the framework and to make it more efficient, dynamic and transparent for Arab countries and investors. More specifically, this paper provides some options to enhance and clarify in greater detail certain provisions of the 1980 Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital in the Arab States or the "the Arab Investment Agreement" with the object of modernizing regional investment relations taking ...