21 June 2011
No 28: Foreign Direct Investment in the South Caucasus
Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) Cover
This issue analyzes the possibilities for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the South Caucasus. In Azerbaijan, Gerald Hübner shows that most FDI goes into the energy sector, while underperforming in the rest of the economy, denying the country many of the benefits, such as international know-how, management, and technology skills, that it might otherwise receive. Georgia, according to Maia Edilashvili, is having difficulty returning to the FDI levels that it achieved in 2007 and must make a major effort to restore investor confidence in the wake of the global economic crisis and the 2008 war with Russia. Haroutiun Khachatrian reports that the Armenian economy has been making progress diversifying investment to the food-processing and tourism areas, moving beyond mining, telecoms, and energy.
© 2011 Center for Security Studies (CSS), Heinrich Böll Foundation, Resource Security Institute (RSI), Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSOE)
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Author:
Gerald Hübner, Maia Edilashvili, Haroutiun Khachatrian
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Lili Di Puppo, Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović
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28
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