Panama: Foreign Investment Up 11%

Posted on 2017-06-20

Foreign direct investment, during the first quarter of 2017, totaled B /.1,315.4 million, representing 10.7 percent more than the B /. 1,188.7 million recorded during the same period last year, according to preliminary figures from the National Statistics and Census Institute (INEC) at the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic.

INEC stastics indicate that, in the first three months of 2017, general license banks registered foreign direct investment  in the amount of 160 million 900 thousand balboas, 3.7 percent more than the 155 million 200 thousand balboas in the first quarter of 2016. 

Source: Central America Data