E-government: The gate for attracting foreign investments

Abstract

There is a growing recognition of the role that e-government has on promoting country attractiveness to foreign investors, hence, governments around the globe are deploying e-government services as a promotion technique that helps eliminating Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) barriers, in particular those related to information retrieval and accessibility, business procedures, bureaucratic protocols facing investors in a host country. This paper addresses the relationship between country attractiveness to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and E-government development of the host country, the study utilized two indices measured in Global Opportunity Index (GOI) measured in E-government Readiness Index (EGRI), Results suggests a significant association between the two measures.