LITUANIA SE CLASIFICA COMOEL PAÍS BÁLTICO MÁS ATRACTIVO PARA LA INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA
Lituania es el más atractivo de los tres estados bálticos para la inversión extranjera según la empresa de auditoría y consultoría EY. La consultora desarrollo la encuesta anual de la atracción de inversión en Europa basada en parte en el número de empleos creados a través de la inversión extranjera y por el número total de los proyectos de inversión extranjera.
Fuente:InvestLithuania
Lithuania Ranks as the Most Attractive Baltic Country for Foreign Investment
Foreign investors created 2,450 jobs in the Baltic countries last year, 1,717 of them in Lithuania – a 15 per cent increase from 2011. The country realised 27 projects, creating 63 jobs on average. Latvia’s 7 FDI projects resulted in 41 jobs on average, while Estonia’s 25 investments created an average of 17 jobs each. Investments from Denmark and the United States created the most Lithuanian jobs.
Almost one-third of the Lithuanian jobs created through FDI were in the financial intermediation services sector and high value-added manufacturing – a focus area of the government. Over the past year, more than 630 jobs were developed through investments in scientific instrument manufacturing, software, and pharmaceutical sectors.
In Latvia, Russian, Swedish and Norwegian businesses were the country’s largest investors according to EY. Lithuania’s northern neighbour attracted most of its FDI in the business services and financial intermediation sectors; each of these sectors accounted for 29 per cent of the total number of FDI projects.
In Estonia, investors from Sweden, Hong Kong and Norway created the most FDI-related new jobs, over a quarter of which were in the software industry. Foreign investors created more than 42 per cent of all new FDI-related jobs in this sector. Business services attracted 12 per cent of all FDI projects in Estonia while the machinery and equipment manufacturing sector received 8 per cent of the total number of investments.
EY noted that the region’s competitive operating costs and a convenient location in Central and Eastern Europe make the Baltic region more attractive to foreign investors than Western Europe. Central and Eastern European countries also outperformed their western neighbours in attracting foreign investment after two disappointing years. FDI flow in the region increased by 5 per cent and created more than 25 per cent jobs.
In 2012, the amount of FDI projects on the entire continent dropped by 3 per cent, but investment levels remain higher than before the onset of the financial crisis. The number of jobs created by FDI projects throughout Europe grew by 8 per cent.
