Foreign Investment in Latin America: Recent Trends and Prospects (original) (raw)

Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Current Trends and Future Prospects

2000

1.A rising tide of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has swept the developing countries over the last ten years. Between 1990 and 1998, the net annual inflow of FDI in developing countries rose from 30.5 billion to 163 billion in constant (1998) U.S. dollars. 2. The increased FDI has not been equally absorbed in the developing world. In fact, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), East Asia and Pacific (EAP), and Europe and Central Asia regions (ECA) have captured most of the increased investment.

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Latin America

2002

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Latin America. Across section analysis The purpose of the paper is to examine the literature of foreign direct investment to evaluate what factors are determinant to attract inflows of foreign capital to I ntin-American and Caribbean countries. The paper focuses on factors such as market size, degree of openness, rule of law, political stability, trade, regional integration, democracy, availability of natural resources, government efficiency, and infrastructure (i.e. energy generation, transportation systems, ports and telecommunication services). The regression results showed that the degree of openness, trade reform, education, market size, and infrastructure are the most important determinants of foreign investment. Based on my analysis, different Latin American countries offer "unique" characteristics that should be emphasized in national policies to attract additional foreign capital.

Foreign investment

2016

Notes and explanation of symbols The following symbols have been used in the tables in this study: Three dots (...) indicate that data are not available or are not separately reported. A minus sign (-) indicates a deficit or decrease, unless otherwise indicated. A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals. Use of a hyphen (-) between years, e.g., 1960-1970, signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning and the end years. The word “dollars ” refers to United States dollars, unless otherwise specified. Figures and percentages in tables may not neccessarily add up to the corresponding totals, because of rounding. Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002 Report is the latest edition of a series published annually by the ECLAC Unit on Investment and Corporate Strategies. It was prepared by Alvaro Calderón, Graciela

Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, 2018

National and international policies have a significant influence on the changes that occur in the business environment in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing incentives for investment decisions, not only for companies already operating in the region, but for new entrants as well. Currently, foreign direct investment flows are the outcome of a combination of factors, including the international environment, national policies, and corporate strategies. Thus, this research evaluates the volume of FDI inflows into the region; the factors that attract them, including incentives and regulations; and their contribution, economical and societal, to Latin American development. This research also explores some of the potential costs of FDI, and its implications on policy options.

Foreign Direct Investment In Latin America During The Emergence Of China And India : Stylized Facts

Policy Research Working Papers, 2007

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

Foreign Investment in Colombia's Financial Sector

IMF working paper, 1999

This is a Working Paper and the author(s) would welcome any comments on the present text. Citations should refer to a Working Paper of the International Monetary Fund. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the Fund.

Macroeconomic antecedents to U.S. investment in Latin America

Journal of Business Research, 2013

The last decade witnessed a significant increase in the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing countries, particularly in Latin America. This increase is likely to continue as multinational corporations look for new markets and profitable opportunities to serve or produce abroad. The growth of FDI in the region calls for a search of the different antecedents of U.S. FDI inflows into Latin America. Knowing the different antecedents of FDI in the region is beneficial at a time a diversity of trade agreements are taking place while others wait for official signatures. A movement towards bilateral and multilateral trade agreements includes the U.S. The U.S. has come to play an important role in terms of expanding the horizon of what would constitute the free trade area of the Americas (FTAA). This study investigates the antecedents of U.S. FDI into Latin American countries, while paying special attention to the relationship between trade agreements and FDI inflows. This study also investigates concern for the foreign exchange market as a source of uncertainty to FDI. The empirical investigation uses a fixed effects panel data model to maximize degrees of freedom and to control for crosscountry and inter-temporal heterogeneity.

Integration and Foreign Investment in Latin America

Handbook of Research on Economic Growth and Technological Change in Latin America, 2014

The processes of economic integration in Latin American economies have logic that goes beyond the simple interest of trade creation. The governments focus on the benefit produced by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as one of the most important reasons to formalize trade agreements. FDI differs in the way in which this investment relates with the local producer sector and the strategy trade policy followed by local governments. In this sense Latin American economies may receive horizontal or vertical FDI, and this chapter aims to examine the impact of strategic trade policies on the inflows of FDI into two Latin American regions: North Region and South Region. These investment flows come from three economic zones: Asia, America, and European Union. To this end, the gravity equation to compare the weight of variables such as distance, infrastructure, trade openness, and cultural affinity as independent variables and FDI as the dependent variable is estimated. The results obtained show that the strategy trade policy followed in the North Region in the form of trade liberalization, and the strategy trade policy followed in the South Region in the form of a relative closeness with the custom union plus the proposed trade agreements with other regions encouraged inflows of FDI in both regions during the analyzed period. While the gravity hypothesis holds on the South Region, in the North Region it does not hold. In the North Region, vertical FDI is received, and in the South Region it is horizontal FDI.