Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 17 / Trend N. Ismayilova /
Great Britain continues to keep leading positions on volume of investments to Azerbaijan. Weight of the country in volume of foreign investments hit 48.4 percent in the first 7 months, state statistical committee said on Aug. 17. British investments hit 706.238 million manat.
In January-July, roughly 87.6 percent (618.419 million manat) of investments of foreign countries and the international organizations to the Azerbaijani economy fall on share of investors from great Britain, the USA, Japan, Norway, France, Czech Republic and Turkey.
U.S investments hit 1112.828 million manat (weight 16 percent), Japanese - 583.95 million manat (8.4 percent), Norwegian - 368.15 million manat (5.2 percent), Turkish - 292.58 million manat (4.1 percent), French - 258.46 million manat (3.7 percent), and Czech - 128.52 million manat (1.8 percent).
The biggest volume of investments was allocated by WB to the amount of 41.509 million manat given weight of 5.9 percent.
Asian Development Bank allocated 14.38 million manat (2 percent), Islamic Development Bank - 15.25 million manat (0.2 percent), Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development - 1.66 million manat (0.2 percent) to realize projects in Azerbaijan.
On Aug. 17, the official exchange rate is 0.804 manat to $1.
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