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Foreign capital in Azerbaijan increases by 10%

11 September 2012 14:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev â€“ APA-ECONOMICS. Total foreign capital in Azerbaijan which reflected in BoP made $ 4.412 bln in first quarter of 2012, up 10.2% compared to a year ago.

Central Bank of Azerbaijan says this index was formed mainly on the account of direct investments and foreign loans.

(mln. doll.)

Structure of involved foreign capital
	2011, 1st quarter	2012, 1st quarter
Direct investments	2,000.5	2,496.1
- oil-gas sector	1,583.4	2,044.8
- other sectors	417.1	451.3
Loans and other investments	2,001.4	1,913.4
- state guaranteed loans	607.3	451.5
- non-state guaranteed loans	1,165.3	593.3
- oil-gas sector	402.6	0.2
- banks	476.4	502.5
- others	286.3	90.6
- other investments	228.8	868.6
Oil bonus	-	2.0
Total	4,001.9	4,411.5

The total sum of foreign capital as a direct investment was $ 2.5 bn. Share of oil-gas structure made 81.9%.

The investments borrowed as other investments decreased by 4.4% and their share dropped 6.6 percentage points to 43.4%.

According to BOP, $ 1,133.5 mln on borrowed loans before was repaid. 41.6% of this belonged to banking system, 13.3% - state and state guaranteed loans, 35.2% - oil-gas sector, 9.9% - other institutions and firms.