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Opportunities to Foreign Investment in Kosovo
The difficulties related to the access of Kosovo's firms in a part of regional market,
caused by Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina remain an important challenge for Kosovo
in attracting new FDI.
In 2010, the manufacturing sector represented the sector with the largest FDI inflows
(23.0 percent of total FDI). Another important sector with regard to the amount of
received FDI consists of the financial sector, which absorbed 22.1 percent of total FDI in
Kosovo. The FDI in the financial sector are mainly composed of reinvested earnings of
financial institutions that operate in Kosovo. The real estate sector (15 percent of total
FDI) and the construction sector (15 percent of total FDI) also represented important
sectors for the attraction of FDI in Kosovo during 2010.
The origin of foreign investors in Kosovo is mainly from the EU countries. Germany
continues to be the country where most of the FDI come from, followed by Slovenia
which represents the second country in terms of the volume of investments in Kosovo.
An important share of FDI in Kosovo also comes from Austria and China.
Table 2.2: Number of foreign enterprises based on sectors and number of employees
Sectors
Number of Number of
enterprises employees
Banking sector
6
369
Banking and
115
4428
financial sector
Construction
466
2253
Education
30
192
Hotels and Tourism
295
1039
Medical
49
148
Other services
156
767
Processing
579
6736
Services
10
15
Services activity
423
2359
Telecommunications
94
953
Trade
1606
4953
Transport
144
399
Total
3973
24611
Source: Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo (IPAK)
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