British Capital Traditional Leader in Foreign Investments
The British capital is a traditional leader on the level of foreign investments (including international financial institutions) into the local economy. It was the same from January to May.
Thus, according to State Statistics Committee, the British invested the equivalent of 651 million 158.8 thousand manat (31.8% of the total, with growth of 55% in comparison with the results of January-April of last year). Norwegians invested 286 million 62.4 thousand manat (+ 16.2%), and there was the highest increase regarding businessmen from Turkey (+ 83.4%), which turned out 265 million 694.7 thousand manat.
In general, the volume of foreign investment in the local economy in January - April 2015 amounted to 2 billion 47.11 million manat (+ 41.9%). --17D-
Economics
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