Weekly Report - 17 April 2019 (WR-19-15)

EL SALVADOR | FDI up. Foreign direct investment (FDI) to El Salvador reached US$1.85bn in 2018, up 5.4% on 2017, El Salvador’s central bank (BCR) reported. According to the BCR, the main recipients of the FDI were industrial activity (49.2%), followed by retail (11.7%), and the financial sector (10.6%). As regards sources of FDI, the US accounted for 39.9% of the total, followed by Panama (21.8%).