– After having plummeted to 0.09 billion in 2012, foreign investment in Italy returned to growth in 2013 but remained still far lower than the levels of 2007, the last year before the economic crisis. In 2014, ICE has registered another increase over the previous year, a trend that could further improve in the course of 2015.
Foreign investment in Italy amounted to more than $ 20 billion in 2014, a figure that in 2013 it amounted to 17 billion (58% less than in 2007, according to Censis) . And ‘the findings by the Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies (ICE).
What is certain is that, despite the encouraging figures of the last 24 months and the good prospects for’ current year, Italy will have to sweat to get on a par with the rest of Europe. Suffice it to say that while the EU average of the ratio of foreign investment to GDP stood at 49.4%, in our country the figure drops to 19.5% (as measured in 2013).
If the ‘Italy wants to catch up should first focus on businesses in the South and the Centre because data in hand, the internationalization can involve almost exclusively companies in the North, with Lombardy in the head.
The Report Italian multinational 2014 the ICE says that, at the end of 2013 were 9,367 Italian companies with foreign participation. Companies that had a turnover of 497.6 billion Euros for an added value of 106.8 billion euro, and 915,906 employees.
Since 2000, the sector performance has detected a slow subsidence ( -22.3% in 13 years) of foreign ownership in manufacturing firms, in general the most popular with investors from other countries, and at the same time an increase in the tertiary sector. The report shows then that foreign firms with investments of Italian companies base are 11,325, while those investments abroad and 30,513 have more than a half million employees and more than 550 billion euro of revenue.
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