The Central Bank of Paraguay published a technical note explaining that the direct investment figures shown in the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's report on foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 are preliminary estimates drawn from balance of payments tables. The central bank said its final 2024 direct investment data will be released in October 2025, once information has been validated, particularly for nonfinancial companies, and will then be incorporated into the balance of payments tables to be published in December 2025. Until then, the Central Bank of Paraguay relies on projections based on observed net direct investment flows from earlier periods, supplemented by quarterly data from supervised financial entities and estimates for nonfinancial companies. It also highlighted a methodological difference with the ECLAC presentation: ECLAC reports direct investment inflows on an assets and liabilities basis as direct investment liabilities, while the central bank also uses the directional principle to estimate net direct investment flows. The note said revisions can be significant, citing changes from USD 474 million to USD 745 million for 2022 and from USD 241 million to USD 576 million for 2023 between the initial ECLAC-reported figures and the final Central Bank of Paraguay data.

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