Economic geography

Turkey received $8.1 billion in net international direct investment from January to September 2018, the Industry and Technology Ministry announced on Dec. 21.

Economic growth will decelerate across advanced and emerging market economies, Moody's has said, noting that contractions in Turkey and Argentina, as well as a slowdown in China amid an escalation in trade war, will pull down aggregate G-20 emerging growth in 2019.

"EcoCity Forum 2018: Circular Economy in Smart Cities" is taking place in Thessaloniki from Wednesday to Friday, organized by Athens-based urban nonprofit organization EcoCity.

The rest is split between "the other five economies," according to an IMF working paper titled Foreign Direct Investment in New Member States of the EU and Western Balkans, Tanjug has reported.

The WB region shows a similar profile in terms of the dominance of services sector and large countries, the report noted.

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.