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October 2021
Foreign investment in Chile grows 73% in the first 8 months of 2021
12 October 2021
InvestChile Managing Director Andrés Rodríguez says the figures reveal that foreign investment in Chile continues to be active and will be key to post-pandemic economic recovery. Chile received US$16 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows between January and August 2021, according to provisional figures released today by Chile’s Central Bank. This figure is 73% […]
September 2021
Chile’s foreign investment continues its record-breaking streak: historic figure in July outstrips 2020 FDI by 74%
10 September 2021
According to figures from Chile’s Central Bank, the cumulative figure for the first seven months of this year was US$14.8 billion, the highest figure for this period since records began. Foreign investment in Chile continues to be very dynamic. According to figures provided this morning by Chile’s Central Bank, the country received a net flow […]
August 2021
Foreign direct investment in Chile hit record high in first half of 2021
19 August 2021
The Chilean Central Bank has released a revised version of its preliminary figures, showing that FDI increased 66% compared to the first half of 2020 to reach US$13.7 billion. This is an all-time high for the January-June period and is 98% above the historic average (US$7 billion). Foreign direct investment (FDI) is going through […]
InvestChile and Circula el Plástico are looking to attract investment to promote recycling in Chile
03 August 2021
Joint actions kicked off with the launch of the “Recycling Infrastructure for Plastic Packaging: Outlook and Opportunities for Investment in Chile” ebook. InvestChile and the Chilean Plastics Pact, Circula el Plástico, have jointly launched the “Recycling Infrastructure for Plastic Packaging: Outlook and Opportunities for Investment in Chile” ebook. The report aims to identify investment […]
July 2021
InvestChile’s portfolio of projects grew by 28% in the first half of 2021
27 July 2021
On June 30th this year, the agency reported that 372 initiatives were receiving its support, for a total value of US$ 24 billion. Foreign investment in Chile didn’t stop for the pandemic. This is clear from the results of InvestChile’s portfolio of projects, which at the close of the first half of this year […]
Economy Ministry and InvestChile present a new strategy to promote foreign investment in Chile
08 July 2021
The strategy puts forward a plan to proactively attract foreign capital, determines the criteria for targeting companies and – for the very first time – consolidates the coordination between Chile’s different services and ministries in regard to investment promotion. InvestChile has presented the final version of Chile’s new strategy for attracting foreign capital to […]
June 2021
InvestChile Public-Private Council reviews the state of foreign investment in Chile
24 June 2021
The new strategy for attracting investment and the challenges triggered by the pandemic were discussed In a virtual meeting. The Public-Private Council for Foreign Investment held its first meeting of the year this morning, which was chaired by InvestChile Managing Director Andrés Rodríguez Rowe. The Council was created under Law 20,848, which established the […]
Minister Palacios calls on foreign investors to continue to have confidence in Chile
07 June 2021
In the webinar “Chile’s Economic Outlook 2021 and Pro-Investment Measures”, the Minister highlighted the role of foreign companies in Chile’s economic recovery. Over 500 representatives of companies, chambers of commerce and public institutions from all over the world tuned past Thursday for the webinar “Chile’s Economic Outlook 2021 and Pro-Investment Measures”, which was organized […]
InvestChile highlights the success of its digital strategy in its 2020 Public Report
01 June 2021
The pandemic has not stopped InvestChile, which last year carried out 90% of its work remotely and succeeded in improving the performance of its portfolio by 25.2%. InvestChile, the Chilean government’s Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, presented a summary of the principal work it carried out last year in its 2020 Public Report. In his […]
May 2021
InvestChile presents its 2020 Public Account
28 May 2021
The managing director of InvestChile, Andrés Rodríguez Rowe, presented this afternoon the fifth Public Account of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, corresponding to the year 2020. Check below the video presentation and the document released today (in Spanish). >> Download The 2020 InvestChile Public Account (PDF)