Qatar accounted for inter-Arab investment inflows worth $23bn between 2003 and April 2015 and was ranked fifth in the list of best performers in the region.
In its latest report on "Investment climate in Arab countries," the Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corp (Dhaman) said the inter-Arab investment projects totalled more than $370bn between 2003 and April 2015.
According to the Kuwait-based Dhaman, which is a pan-Arab organisation owned by the governments of Arab states and four Arab financial institutions, Qatar accounted for 6.2% of the total inter-Arab investment inflows between 2003 and April 2015.
Dhaman said it has extracted the figures related to Arab states from the database entitled "Foreign direct investment markets" developed by the Financial Times.
In terms of countries with inter-Arab investment inflows between 2003 and April 2015, Egypt topped the Arab states with projects worth $99.3bn and a share of 26.8% of the total investments, followed by Iraq with $35bn (9.5%).
Algeria came in the third place with $24.3bn and a share of 6.6%. Saudi Arabia was ranked fourth with $23.9bn (6.5%).
Behind Qatar was Libya, which at the sixth place accounted for $22.9bn and a share of 6.2% and Jordan, ranked seventh, received $22.9bn (6.2%).
Tunisia came in the eighth place with $21.6bn and a share of 5.8%, followed by the UAE in the ninth place with $17.4bn representing 4.7% of the total.
Regarding countries with inter-Arab investment outflows for the period between 2003 and April 2015, the UAE topped the list with $212.6bn representing 57.5% of the total, followed by Bahrain in the second place with $49.2bn (13.3%) and Kuwait in the third place with $34.7bn (9.4%). Qatar ranked fourth with $30.1bn and accounted for 8.2% of the total inter-Arab investment outflows between 2003 and April 2015, Dhaman said.
Saudi Arabia was ranked fifth with $15.5bn (4.2%) and Egypt came in at the sixth place with $12.3bn (3.3%).
According to the Financial Times database, the number of inter-Arab investment projects between 2003 and April 2015 was estimated at 2246.
Saudi Arabia attracted the most inward investment projects for that period with some 331 projects (14.8% of the Arab total), followed by the UAE in the second place with 249 projects representing 11.1%, Egypt in the third place with 219 projects (9.81%) and Oman in the fourth place with 203 projects (9.1%).
As for countries with outward investment projects for the same period, the UAE ranked first with 1067 projects representing 47.5% of the Arab total, followed by Kuwait in the second place with 257 projects (11.4%) and Saudi Arabia in the third place with 253 projects (11.3%).
Qatar was ranked fourth with 134 projects and a share of 6% of the Arab total, the report added.