Foreign direct investment FDI has been started to play a major role in supporting the
growth of the economies of developing countries since the eighties of the last century,
taking advantage of the rapid spread of information and communication tech
nology ICT
and the trend towards a market economy in most developing countries and trade
liberalization in them. These countries began to depend more on foreign direct investment
because of the great benefits that derive from it in terms of capital, employment and
increase in exports, or in terms of obtaining the modern technology which is necessary to
achieve the economic development.
In Syria, foreign direct investment flows started to increase since 2003 as a result of
the new directions of the Syrian government to open up to domestic and foreign private
sector, and reliance on the market economy.
The objective of this research is to shed light on the reality of foreign direct
investment in Syria, and to clarify the impact of this investment on economic growth
during the period 2000-2010. It has reached to find out that this effect was weak.
