Dubai FDI Location Benchmarking Study (Middle East)

Key Deliverables

• Development of an econometric model determining how much FDI a city should attract based on its GDP and Population size
• Application of the model to the 50 leading cities for FDI in 2015, 2016, and 2017 and development of a new City FDI Performance Index
• Identification of 100 key cost and quality location factors to benchmark Dubai against other cities from GCC, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America
• Benchmarking of Dubai for 10 key sectors, ranking Dubai’s overall competitive position in each sector and identified key strengths and weaknesses
• Presentation of the study at the Dubai Investment Week in October 2018
• The report was published in 2019