Economic geography

The biggest foreign investors in the Bulgarian economy are from the European Union, according to a statement made by the Minister of Economy Emil Karanikolov.
 
Foreign direct investment in the country for the period January - March 2018 amounted to EUR 179.1 million. For the same period in 2017 these foreign investments in the country amounted to EUR 950.1 million.
 

The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) last year reached its highest since 2008, amounting to $4.046 billion and recording a year-on-year rise of 31 percent on 2016's $3.069 billion, according to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Prices of both domestic cattle and red meat have continued to rise in Turkey despite ongoing imports worth nearly $1.3 billion since last year. 

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Turkey attracted $10.83 billion in net international direct investment last year, $7.44 billion of which was equity investment inflow, the Economy Ministry announced on Feb. 23.

TIRANA, Feb 12 /ATA/ – The government’s pro-business climate reforms and its position as an important gateway for south-eastern European and Balkan countries have helped Albania to attract around 13 percent of the foreign investments volume in the region.
Foreign direct investments (FDI) to surpassed one billion dollars in 2017, while the FDI inflow is expected to be higher in 2018.

By implementing more structural reforms Turkey can send a clear signal to lure more foreign funding in the form of direct investment (FDI), Johannes Zutt, Turkey country director for the World Bank, told state-run Anadolu Agency on Dec. 24.

Turkey received almost $8.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 10 months of the year, a drop of nearly 17 percent year-on-year, the Economy Ministry said on Dec. 21.

 A new free-trade deal between the European Union and Mexico is "very close" to agreement but there are still issues such as agricultural access to hammer out, senior officials from both sides said on Thursday, quoted by Reuters. 

The Bulgarians are fortunate enough to live in the economically developed part of the planet but can not yet skip the threshold and enter the group of the highest income countries in the world where is all the rest of the EU except our neighbors Romania and Croatia.