Mexico | Foreign Direct Investment: ¿Who is Right?

Summary

Every quarter, the Ministry of Economy (SE) releases an initial data on foreign direct investment (FDI) that adjusts over time. In recent days, there has been debate about the most recent FDI data, corresponding to the first quarter of this year.

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• Key points:
• A few days ago the SE published that FDI for the first quarter of this year amounted to 11.864 million dollars, highlighting that it was preliminary data
• The SE announced that this meant a growth of 14.8% compared to the first quarter of last year
• To obtain this growth rate, the SE made a comparison with the preliminary data for the first quarter of 2020, which was 10,334 million dollars, which sparked a great controversy

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