Baku, Azerbaijan, April 10
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
In the first quarter of 2018, Uzbekistan received 16.8 billion soums of investments, of which 58.8 percent accounted for attracted funds and 41.2 percent – for own funds of local companies and organizations, the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said in a message.
Most of the investments for the mentioned period were directed to construction sector - 10.6 billion soums, which made up 63.3 percent of the total investment portfolio.
Investments in the expansion, reconstruction, modernization and technical re-equipment of existing facilities amounted to 3.5 billion soums, or 21.2 percent of the total investment portfolio.
The largest share of investments aimed at the construction of new facilities was observed in the Bukhara region, accounting for 82 percent of total investment in the country’s construction sector, followed by Namangan, Surkhandarya, Kashkadarya regions and the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The lowest level of this indicator was observed in the city of Tashkent.