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Azerbaijan increases capital involved from abroad by 31%

14 December 2012 09:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev – APA-ECONOMICS. Total foreign capital in Azerbaijan which reflected in BoP made $ 7.6 bln in January-September of 2012, up 30.6% 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. dollar)

Structure of involved foreign capital
	2011, 9 months	2012, 9 months
Direct investments	3,108.3	3,972.6
- oil-gas sector	2,422.3	3,128.1
- other sectors	686.0	844.5
Loans and other investments	2,683.2	3,612.9
- state guaranteed loans	744.4	805.1
- non-state guaranteed loans	1,501.1	1,363.6
- oil-gas sector	405.2	111.8
- banks	623.9	1,102.4
- others	472.0	149.4
- other investments	437.7	1,444.2
Oil bonus	20.0	2.0
Total	5,811.5	7,587.5

The total sum of foreign capital as a direct investment was $ 4.0 bn. Share of oil-gas structure made 78.7%.

The investments borrowed as other investments increased by 34.6% and their share dropped 1.4 percentage points to 47.6%.

According to BOP, $ 1,638.5 mln on borrowed loans before was repaid. 46.3% ($758.4 mln) of this belonged to banking system, 13.6% ($223.4 mln) - state and state guaranteed loans, 28.5% ($466.3 mln) - oil-gas sector, 11.6% ($190.4 mln) - other institutions and firms.