Foreign investment in Kyrgyzstan reduce by half in 2016
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It is noted manufacturing industries accounted for a third of direct investments. Also, a significant share of investments is taken by geological exploration (20.3 percent), financial intermediation and insurance (22 percent).
Most investments are in Bishkek and Chui regions. Russians prefer to invest in enterprises and companies in the capital (74 percent of all investments in the city), and the Chinese prefer to invest in Chui region (82.8 percent of investment).
«Factors that affected the decline in the volume of foreign direct investment in the country as a whole were their decline from Britain - in geological exploration, Turkey - in construction, China and Canada -in manufacturing enterprises, Russia - in financial intermediation and insurance," Viktoria Biryukova, head of the Department of Statistics of Investments of the National Statistics Committee, commented.
