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13 Feb 2018
Foreign investment in Belarusian economy at $9.7bn in 2017
MINSK, 13 February (BelTA) - In 2017 foreign investors injected $9.7 billion into Belarus' economy (except for banks), BelTA learned from the website of the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.
The primary investors were economic operators of Russia (38% of the total investment), the United Kingdom (26.6%), and Cyprus (7.2%).
Foreign direct investment made up $7.6 billion, or 78.5% of the total.
In 2017 Belarusian economic operators (except for banks) transferred $5.5 billion in investments abroad. Considerable sums were channeled into economic operators in Russia (66.9% of the total outgoing investments), Ukraine (17.3%), and the UK (7.6%).
Direct investments accounted for 93.8% of the total outgoing investments.
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