The growth of investments in Azerbaijan's economy continued in February 2010.
According to a statement from the State Statistical Committee, the investments to Azerbaijan's economy in January-February made up AZN 1,076.7 mln of capital investments ($1,345.875 mln under the average exchange rate of AZN 0.8 per USD 1) which is a 2.4% growth over investments in January 2009. Meanwhile, the investments in February made up AZN 674.9 mln against AZN 401.3 mln a month earlier.
The forecast of investments for 2010 is established on the level of AZN 11,315.8 mln ($14,070.8 mln) with a 12.5% growth and the factual investments in January-February made up 9.5% of the forecast for a year while their growth turned out to be 10.1% lower than expected.
Fineko/abc.az
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