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The Annual Investment Meeting, AIM, will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from April 9th
-11th, 2018. The conference will discuss issues related to investment and development.

The Cumulative Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, of the UAE jumped to US$117.9 billion by the end of 2016
from US$109 billion by the end of 2015, a growth of 8.2 percent supported by increasing investments
in areas of transformational and other heavy industries, according to recent reports.

According to the 2017 Global Investment Report published by the United Nation’s Council on Trade and
Development, UNCTAD, the UAE is the 11th largest FDI recipient in Asia. Its main investors are the UK,
Japan and Hong Kong. In 2016, the UAE attracted US$8.9 billion, a 1.7 percent increase on 2015, with
the political and economic stability of the country attracting investors. The bulk of FDI is
concentrated in retail/wholesale trading, real-estates, insurance and manufacturing industry sectors.
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