Economic geography

Turkey attracted $2.8 billion net foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of the year with a 1.9 percent year-on-year increase, data from the Economy Ministry showed on May 23. 

A total of $1.6 billion FDI entered into the country in March, according to the ministry data. 

Turkish companies' foreign direct investment (FDI) outflow has increased by 10 times over the past 15 years, according to an index released on May 17.

This year's edition of the Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index is titled Glass half full. It finds that while business executives are increasingly worried about the negative effects of politics, they are nevertheless optimistic with regards to the global economy and the opportunities that foreign direct investments bring.

Turkey received $457 million in foreign direct investment in February, the Economy Ministry stated in a report on April 24.        

Foreign investment in Turkey reached $1.059 billion in the first two months of this year, down by 34.3 percent compared with the same period last year.        

The tourism of younger people is a very promising market. According to the data available by the World Tourism Organization 370 million young people are expected to be traveling around the globe by 2020, while another estimation for tourists between the ages of 18 to 26 states that the value of this market will rise up to 320bn dollars.

Turkey attracted $12.1 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2016, higher than expected in light of the latest developments in both Turkey and the surrounding region, a top association announced on Feb. 24. 

The language and the words we use are only the end results of what we have produced. Humanity is used to create a language at certain times. However a bunch of those words passes their shelf lives in due time, making them lose their function and meaning.
 

The question that never changes when I return from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has always been "Who are the people and events that marked Davos this year? 

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented himself as a champion of globalization on Jan. 17, lecturing the world elite in Davos on the dangers of protectionism and the futility of trade wars.

Estimates of a brisk fall in the value of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bulgaria are "not quite correct", Stamen Yanev, who heads the country's investment promotion agency, has said.

The year 2016 was a "successful" year in the view of InvestBulgaria Agency, Yanev has told Bloomberg Tv Bulgaria's morning talkshow in an interview.