OREANDA-NEWS. July 29, 2011. After the dramatic fall in 2009, the volume of direct foreign investments in Moldova is starting to recovery, totaling USD 199 million in 2010, - the UCTAD report. According to data of the Report on global investments prepared by the United Nations Confederation for Trade and development, as a whole, the volume of direct foreign investments in Moldova has increased six times since 2000 and 29 times since 1995, totaling USD 2.837 billion in 2010.

At the same time, Moldova is far behind the region’s countries: Romania - USD 70 billion, Ukraine - USD 57 billion, Russia - USD 42 billion. UNCTAD experts say that unlike the region’s countries, Moldovan enterprises were less attractive for international purchases and mergers and the volume of transactions in this field has totaled only USD 15 million over the lat five years, while in Romania this indicator totaled USD 4.49 billion, in Russia - USD 26.3 billion, Ukraine – USD 9.2 billion.

The report reads that in the foreign investment attraction process developing countries should balance risks not to be blocked in industrial processes with low value added and to avoid the increased dependency on foreign raw materials and technologies.

The report stresses that for the first time in history developing countries and transition economies altogether attracted over half of global flows of direct foreign investments while the flow of direct foreign investments in developed countries continues to reduce. As a whole, even though the direct foreign investments in 2010 somewhat increased – to USD 1.24 trillions, they happened to be 15% less than the pre-crisis level.