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LatinNews Daily - 03 December 2020

In brief: FDI to Central America falls in 2019

* The Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (Eclac) has released a new report which shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) to Central America totalled US$11.5bn in 2019, a 6.4% drop on 2018. The same report showed that FDI to Central America accounted for 7% of the total received by the whole of Latin America & the Caribbean. The US was the main source of FDI to Central America, providing 52% of the total. Panama was the only country to see a rise in 2019 compared with 2018, receiving US$5.89bn, up 7.4% on 2018. Costa Rica received US$2.5bn, US$257m less than in 2018; Guatemala received US$998m, roughly the same as in 2018; Honduras received US$947m, a 31.3% drop on 2018; El Salvador received US$662m, US$164m less than in 2018; while in Nicaragua, FDI totalled US$503m, a 39.9% drop on 2018. Panama accounted for 51.2% of the FDI to the sub-region in 2019, followed by Costa Rica (21.8%); Guatemala (8.7%); Honduras (8.2%); El Salvador (5.8%); and Nicaragua (4.4%).

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