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Saudi Foreign Direct Investment Surges as Inbound Investment Stock Passes One Trillion Riyals

Saudi Arabia’s net inbound foreign direct investment rose 53 percent to 122 billion riyals, according to UNCTAD data, making the Kingdom the world’s thirteenth-largest recipient of international capital as economic diversification under Vision 2030 advances.

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