Georgia reveals its investment potential in US
PM Kvirikashvili meets investors in Chicago

The country’s top official is shedding light on Georgia’s promising investment climate to businesses and investors in the United States (US).

Today in Chicago Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili met with representatives of US investment funds, banks and other potential investors and told them about the preferential business environment in Georgia and the benefits they would experience.

Kvirikashvili spoke about Georgia’s achievements of recent years and highlighted the important reforms implemented to develop the country’s economy.

The Georgian high official said his country’s investment attractiveness had improved immensely thanks to a number of reforms recently carried out. He assured his hosts that despite instability in the region, Georgia had managed to keep its economic growing and all areas of the economy were stable and open to foreign investments.

PM met with representatives of US investment funds, banks and other potential investors in Chicago today. Photo by Giorgi Kvirikashvili/Facebook.

Recent figures showed the number of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) increased 80 percent in 2014, totalling $1.83 billion USD.

Georgia’s strategically important location was another advantage Kvirikashvili highlighted, and he explained how Georgia could increase its role as a transit corridor country.

The Georgian high official also spoke of the new four-point reform plan, which included new tax benefits, infrastructure plans, governance reforms and an overhaul of the education system, as a way to increase economic development.