COLOMBIA-BOLIVIA |
Falling foreign investment. On 19 September Colombia’s central bank (Banrep) reported that net foreign investment received by the country in August was US$1.91bn, 23.4% lower than in the same month last year. The main reason for this fall was a 24.7% decline in foreign investment portfolios, even though there was a year-on-year 22.2% increase in foreign direct investment (FDI). This means that the level of divestment (foreign investors pulling money out of the country) was higher than the level of foreign investment inflows despite the level of FDI coming into the country being higher than last year.
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