FDI down by over 4.5% in 2014: Report
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flow into Bangladesh went down by over 4.5 percent last year, a report launched today said.
The FDI inflow in 2014 amounted to $1.526 billion, the World Investment Report 2015 of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said.
The figure is an over 4.7 percent decrease compared to the 2013 amount of $1.599 billion, the report said. The Board of investment made the report public.
“The FDI flow went down marginally. We see no specific reasons behind the drop,” SA Samad, executive chairman of the Board of Investment, said at the programme.
“We had hoped that it would go up given the steps we have taken to simplify procedures for making investment in the country,” he added.
Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury, prime minister’s energy adviser who was present at the launching programme, said Bangladesh is luring lot of investments which “has not been reflected” in the report.
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