Wednesday, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) announced that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increased slightly in Haiti in 2015, from $99 million (2014) to 104 million US dollars (2015).

The textile and tourism are the two main sectors benefiting from these investments with the opening of a new textile factory in the industrial park SONAPI (by Korean clothing manufacturer Hansae) and the opening of the Marriott Hotel in Port-au-Prince (45 million).

ECLAC also states that in 2015, the Dominican Republic, which shares the island with Haiti, saw its FDI increase slightly by 1% to $ 2.2 billion, whose 49% of the total come from the tourism sector and real estate development.

PI/ HaitiLibre