OREANDA-NEWS. April 12, 2011. The net flow of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Moldovan economy hiked by 55.6 per cent up to 198 million dollars in 2010; the investments per capita reached 797 dollars, according to data by the National Bank of Moldova (BNM).

The foreign direct investments increased as a result of a 30.4-per cent cut-down in the capital outflows, in conditions when the foreign direct investments maintained at the level of 2009.

In 2010, the FDI entries in the national economy were estimated at 360.48 million dollars, of which 183.05 million dollars in social capital.

The stock of foreign direct investments amounted to 2,837.48 million dollars, according to the situation on 31 December 2010, of which 2,180.64 million dollars represented shares in capital and reinvested income. Moldova attracted the biggest foreign direct investments one year before the crisis - in 2008, when investment entries hit the record level of 830.86 million dollars and the net investments amounted to 696.69 million dollars.

The National Bank specified that the geographical distribution of the foreign direct investments accumulated in the social capital shows that the "European Union countries' investments have the greatest quota (53.3 per cent), which in 2010 grew due to the investments from Romania (banking sector), Cyprus and the Netherlands (other sectors)." Investors from the Commonwealth of Independent States had an 11.7-per cent quota of FDI in social capital, and investors from other countries 35 per cent.