{"id":13464,"date":"2018-09-09T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:50:55","slug":"ernst-young-places-bulgaria-29th-in-number-of-foreign-direct-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/ernst-young-places-bulgaria-29th-in-number-of-foreign-direct-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernst &#038; Young Places Bulgaria 29th in Number of Foreign Direct Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13400 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"991\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst.png 991w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-600x268.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-260x116.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-50x22.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/FDI-Earnst-150x67.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulgaria was ranked 29<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of number of foreign direct investments attracted in 2017 according to Ernst &amp; Young\u2019s European attractiveness survey. Bulgaria secured 33 FDI projects in 2017 &#8211; a slight decrease compared to 2016 when they totaled 36. The new jobs created as a result of FDI were only 2 739 &#8211; decrease of 30% on 2016, when the new jobs were 3 959.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest investors in Bulgaria were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Germany, which created 1200 jobs<\/li>\n<li>Great Britain with 510 jobs<\/li>\n<li>USA with 242 jobs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly created jobs through FDI in Bulgaria were mainly in the field of business services, finance, information technology, transport and logistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The countries with the highest FDI growth in 2017 were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Serbia &#8211; 157%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Turkey &#8211; 66%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Finland &#8211; 44%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The countries from Central and Eastern European (CEE) continued to attract more FDI than their Western European partners under the auspices of their membership in the European Union (EU), ranking third in attracting investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attractiveness of regions for investors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Western Europe &#8211; 53% <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China &#8211; 42%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Central and Eastern Europe &#8211; 41%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> North America &#8211; 34% <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full ranking and analysis of the consulting company are available<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ey.com\/gl\/en\/issues\/business-environment\/ey-attractiveness-survey-europe-june-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria was ranked 29th in terms of number of foreign direct investments attracted in 2017 according to Ernst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}