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INVESTMENT Increasing foreign investment into Thailand: IMF
The Nation December 19, 2014 3:25 pm
Inward direct investment into Thailand reached US$178 billion in 2013, up from $172 billion in the previous year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
By country, investment from Japan was the highest, at $63.03 billion, according to the preliminary results from its 2013 Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS), the fund's worldwide survey of bilateral direct investment positions. Japan was followed by Singapore ($26.63 billion), the United States ($13.85 billion), the Netherlands ($11.4 billion), and Hong Kong ($7.86 billion).
Since CDIS was introduced in 2009, the value of such investment into Thailand has continued to rise; from $106.9 billion in 2009, to $139.3 billion in 2010 and $155 billion in 2011.
The latest CDIS also showed that the inward direct investment positions of 88 economies including Thailand increased 8.2 per cent from US$25.8 trillion in 2012 to US$27.9 trillion in 2013.
Direct investment is concentrated in a relatively small number of economies. In 2013, similarly to previous years, 67 percent of the total inward direct investment (US$27.9 trillion) was received by the 10 economies with the largest inward direct investment, and 80 percent of the total outward direct investment (US$28.2 trillion) originated from the 10 economies with the largest outward direct investment. There is large direct investment within some regions: intraregional direct investment explains about 2/3 of the inward direct investment in Europe and economies of the Persian Gulf, and almost one half in East Asia in 2013.
Since CDIS was introduced in 2009, the value of such investment into Thailand has continued to rise; from $106.9 billion in 2009, to $139.3 billion in 2010 and $155 billion in 2011.
The latest CDIS also showed that the inward direct investment positions of 88 economies including Thailand increased 8.2 per cent from US$25.8 trillion in 2012 to US$27.9 trillion in 2013.
Direct investment is concentrated in a relatively small number of economies. In 2013, similarly to previous years, 67 percent of the total inward direct investment (US$27.9 trillion) was received by the 10 economies with the largest inward direct investment, and 80 percent of the total outward direct investment (US$28.2 trillion) originated from the 10 economies with the largest outward direct investment. There is large direct investment within some regions: intraregional direct investment explains about 2/3 of the inward direct investment in Europe and economies of the Persian Gulf, and almost one half in East Asia in 2013.
Author:
Patrick Lusted