{"id":8247,"date":"2022-08-30T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:15:10","slug":"foreign-direct-investment-figure-reaches-us1870-9-million-20-expansion-compared-to-first-semester-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/foreign-direct-investment-figure-reaches-us1870-9-million-20-expansion-compared-to-first-semester-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Direct Investment figure reaches US$1,870.9 million, 20% expansion compared to first semester of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Foreign direct investment reflects the confidence of investors who banked on the Dominican Republic. See the detail by country since 2018 below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every year, the\u00a0Dominican Republic\u00a0is a major recipient of\u00a0Foreign Direct Investment. The arrival of foreign capital, along with tourism, exports, and free zones, are the prime movers of the\u00a0Dominican economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the definition by the\u00a0Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean\u00a0(ECLAC), {Foreign\u00a0direct\u00a0investment}<\/em> \u201cis an investment made by a resident enterprise in one economy (direct investor or parent enterprise) with the objective of establishing a lasting interest in an enterprise that is resident in another economy\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on the information available on\u00a0ProDominicana’s\u00a0Data Market portal, the United States is the country where most of the flow of foreign direct investment to the Dominican Republic comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Figures in US$ million The United States, Canada and Mexico are the three largest sources of foreign direct investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2021, the total flow was US$1362.3 million and at the end of the first quarter of 2022, the amount reached US$320.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreign direct investment reached US$1,870.9 million between January and June 2022, an expansion of 8.0% compared to the same period in 2021 and 20% with the first half of 2019. The sectors that received the most FDI in the first half of 2022 were\u00a0tourism,\u00a0trade and industry,\u00a0mining,\u00a0and\u00a0real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign direct investment reflects the confidence of investors who banked on the Dominican Republic. See the detail by country since 2018 below. Every year, the\u00a0Dominican Republic\u00a0is a major recipient of\u00a0Foreign Direct Investment. The arrival of foreign capital, along with tourism,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment-in-dr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nForeign Direct Investment, by country<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Flow of foreign direct investment by country of origin<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Source: ProDominicana Figures for first quarter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n