Investment by Latin American corporations in Spain elevated by 138% in 2023 | Economy | EUROtoday

The significance of the Spanish economic system for Latin American capital has not stopped rising lately. Spain has established itself because the second world vacation spot for capital from Latin America, after the United States. Investment has elevated by greater than 20 billion euros over the past decade, based on knowledge collected within the report Global Latam 2024, carried out by the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (Icex) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib), which was introduced this Wednesday in Madrid. Following on this wake, regardless of the local weather of uncertainty not solely regional, but in addition international, corporations elevated their spending to 2,835 million euros in 2023, 138% greater than the earlier yr.

The Icex report states that, collectively, the Latin American area is the fourth largest investor in Spain, with an gathered quantity since 1993 of 66,883 million euros. Only the United States, the United Kingdom and France have invested extra in Spain throughout that interval, whereas vital European financial companions, resembling Germany or Italy, are left behind. The CEO of Icex, Elisa Carbonell, has highlighted the positioning of Spain as a strategic base for the enlargement of Ibero-American corporations to different European or North African markets: “Collaboration and exchange of knowledge can generate synergies and strengthen economic relations between both regions”, he celebrated.

This assertion is clear within the report, since 70% of Latin American buyers spotlight geographical location as one of many key factors to ascertain themselves within the nation, solely behind language and cultural proximity (78% of the full of corporations surveyed).

Andrés Allamand, secretary common of Segib, has highlighted that the financial knowledge for 2023 have exceeded the expectations of the start of the yr, due to financial figures that talk of a yr of consolidation of Foreign Direct Investment from Latin America overseas, with 47,743 million {dollars} (about 44,000 million euros). Added to this is a rise in funding flows in mergers and the constructive evolution of Latin American investments world wide in tasks greenfield (the anglicism with which greenfield investments are identified), that are probably the most fascinating when it comes to job creation, wealth and excessive added worth.

Regarding the international locations of origin of the capital, the report highlights that Latin American funding in Spain is principally concentrated in Mexico, which has accounted for 33,096 million euros of funding since 1993, 49.5% of the full). Last yr that quota was even exceeded, since 58% of the cash coming from Latin America was Mexican capital (1,645 million, in absolute phrases). This makes it the primary middle-income nation by funding in Spain, far forward of another rising or middle-income nation, together with China, which is the second largest economic system on this planet.

In second place, when trying on the gathered funding, Argentina is positioned with 10,337 million (15.5% of the full). They are adopted by Brazil, with 6,904 million (10.3%), and Colombia, with 4,492 million (6.8%). The doc highlights {that a} whole of 20 international locations within the Latin American area have investments in Spain, constituting an vital enterprise group of greater than 600 corporations and 47,000 direct jobs generated.

By variety of tasks, not by funding quantity, the primary Latin American investor in Spain is Argentina, with 71 tasks, though Mexico could be very shut with 70 tasks. The latter, nonetheless, has bigger investments, with the implementation of multinationals resembling Cemex or Bimbo. Argentina, alternatively, has a enterprise base in Spain made up of SMEs and rising corporations.

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