The volume of foreign investment in Belarusian economy in H1 2010 increased by 4.4%, compared to the same period of 2009, and amounted to $4.4 billion. Investment in fixed capital and construction increased by 5% compared to last year, reported in the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.
In H1 2010, major investors were economic entities of Russia (71.5% of total foreign investment), Austria (9.3%), Netherlands (5.9%), Cyprus (3.8%), United Kingdom (3.5%). However, from total amount of foreign investments in January — June this year there were used only 42% ($1.8 billion), BelTA informs.
Direct foreign investment amounted to 60.2% of the total, increased by 7.2% over H1 2009 up to $2.6 billion. Most part of direct foreign investment (92%) came from residents of Russia. The share of residents of United Kingdom and Cyprus amounted to 1% each, Latvia — 0.8%, China and Germany — 0.7% each, USA — 0.6%.
The majority of direct foreign investment was sent to develop transport sector (75.8%), trade and public catering (15.4%) and industry (4.7%).
In H1 2010, investment in fixed capital and construction totaled 25.3 trillion rubles. Thus, they increased by 5% over the same period of 2009.
In accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers, this year in Belarus there being implemented more than 60 investment projects in total, which will attract more than 2.8 trillion rubles of investment.