OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2011. Investments into the basic capital of enterprises and organizations of all ownership forms in Moldova in 2010 totaled 12,927.4 million leis (USD 1.08 billion), up 16.7% against 2009. The volume of building and assembly works in 2010 totaled 6,479.8 million leis (USD 540 million) or 50.1% of the total volume of investments, up 7.4% against 2009, according to the National Statistics Bureau.

Investments in equipment and machines, vehicles totaled about 5,571.4 million leis (USD 464.3 million) in 2010, exceeding indicators of the year of 2009 by 29.1% and making up 43.1% of the total investments in 2010. Economic agents’ and population’s own money remained the main sources of the investment activity financing in Moldova in 2010 (59.5% of the total amount). Foreign investments constituted 17.3%.

At the same time, the share of investments at the expense of economic subjects’ and population’s own funds grew 5 percentage points, while the share of foreign investments went down 4.3 p.p. in comparison with the previous year. Investments into the fixed capital at the expense of the budget constituted just 8.5% of the total amount, their share decreased by 1.3 p.p.

The analysis of the investment structure in terms of the ownership forms indicates that the investment activity in Moldova in 2010 was run mostly at the expense of non-public enterprises, with 66.5% of the total investments falling to their share. They fulfilled 62.6% of the total volume of building and assembly works and 100% of the total volume of resident houses construction. The share of state-run enterprises in the structure of investments into the basic capital reached 33.5%.