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Encouraging Foreign Direct Investments in the COMCEC Region
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7. Annex 2
Classification of the COMCEC Member Countries by Stage of Development125
Stage I Stage II Stage III
Afghanistan Albania Bahrain
Benin Algeria Brunei
Burkina Faso Azerbaijan Indonesia
Cameroon Bangladesh Kuwait
Chad Egypt Malaysia
Comoros Iran Nigeria
Cote d'Ivoire Jordan Oman
Djibouti Kazakhstan Qatar
Gabon Lebanon Saudi Arabia
Gambia Libya Turkey
Guinea Maldives UAE
Guinea-Bissau Morocco
Guyana Pakistan
Iraq Palestine
Kyrgyz Republic Sudan
Mali Syria
Mauritania Tajikistan
Mozambique Tunisia
Niger Turkmenistan
Senegal Uzbekistan
Sierra Leone Yemen
Somalia
Suriname
Togo
Uganda
125 The different phases 1 – 3 serve only as an arbitrary classification of COMCEC Member Countries based on their economic
development, current state of the agricultural sector, and their ability to import and export agricultural commodities. It is by no
means a statistical classification nor a proxy for self-sustainability of countries. In addition, countries in phase 1 and 2 can easily have
a leading position in one or more agricultural commodities. Therefore, in general, it serves as a framework to analyze what type of
FDI would be most required.