Foreign capital in the amount of $ 4,411.5 million was held by business entities of Azerbaijan in the first half of this year. This is $ 409.6 million, or 10.2% more than in the corresponding period of 2011.
According to the balance of payments, foreign direct investment increased by $ 495.6 mln, or 25%, to $ 2,496.1 million with the non-oil sector, the volume of direct investments increased by $ 34.2 million or 8.2% to $ 451.3 million.
Loans and other investments in the national economy decreased 4.4%. At the same time, loans with a state guarantee decreased by 25.7% to $ 451.5 million and non-guaranteed loans - by 49.1% to $ 593.3 million, including the non-oil sector - by 22.2% to $ 593 , 1 million
Most of unsecured loans in the oil sector has been involved banks in the amount of $ 502.5 million, which is 5.5% more than in January-June 2011.
Other investments increased by 3.8 times to $ 868.6 million in the reporting period, the country was the oil bonus of $ 2 million
In the first six months of 2012, the country paid off for credits $ 1,133.5 million, of which 41.6% ($ 471.3 million) was paid by banks, 13.3% ($ 150.7 million) - state loans and loans with state guarantee, 35.2% ($ 399.1 million) - the oil and gas sector, and 9.9% ($ 112.4 million) - in other companies and businesses. - 15B -
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