{"id":260904,"date":"2019-10-29T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=260904"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:52:42","slug":"egypt-the-premier-fdi-destination-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypt-the-premier-fdi-destination-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt the premier FDI destination in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Egypt was the country that attracted the most foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first half of this year, the website of newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al Ahram<\/a> quoted the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (<a href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNCTAD<\/a>) as reporting.<\/p>\n<p>UNCTAD said Egypt saw USD 3.6 billion in FDI, with Africa as a whole getting USD 23 billion in H1, down 2% from H1 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNCTAD, Egypt remains the premier FDI destination in the continent, on the back of an economic reform program being rolled out since November 2016, leading to improved macro indicators and investment climate.<\/p>\n<p>Global FDI flows amounted to USD 650 billion in H1, up 24% year-on-year. UNCTAD expects investment to cool off as trade tensions mount around the globe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-260901\">Sayed Hassan\/DPA\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country was targeted by USD 3.6 billion in foreign direct investment in the first half of 2019, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":260901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[9803,3901,12264,12265],"class_list":{"0":"post-260904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-egypt-en","9":"tag-fdi","10":"tag-investimento-egito","11":"tag-unctad-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The country was targeted by USD 3.6 billion in foreign direct investment in the first half of 2019, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}