A total volume of foreign investments that came to Tajikistan last year amounts to 6.1 billion somoni (equivalent to 645 million U.S. dollars), with more than 50 percent (3.356 billion somoni, which is equivalent to 326 million U.S. dollars) of them being foreign direct investments, according to the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest).
Tajikistan’s investment portfolio now reportedly includes 69 projects totaling 30.5 billion somoni (equivalent to 3.23 billion U.S. dollars),
Tajikistan’s investment portfolio, in particular, includes 23 grant based projects, 12 loan based projects and 34 mixed-finance projects, GosKomInvest head added.
The main investing financial institutions are the Asian Development Bank (ADB) – 743 million U.S. dollars; the Export–Import Bank of China (Chexim – China Exim Bank) – 467 million U.S. dollars; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – 403 million U.S. dollars; the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) – 148.6 million U.S. dollars; etc.
Despite unsettled debts, Tajikistan intends to borrow another some 777 million U.S. dollars within the next three years under the national foreign-borrowing program: 261.8 million USD in 2019; 255.9 million USD in 2020; and 258.6 million USD in 2021.
