The AS/COA Rule of Law Working Group report focuses on how to improve and strengthen the rule of law in the Americas.

Eduardo Vidal and Gustavo Laborde of the Latin American practice group at Hubbard & Reed LLP, emphasize the importance of democracies committed to equal protection under the law.

This report highlights investment trends over the past two decades and shows some of the reasons why Latin American and Caribbean nations are losing investors to other regions of the world. It also shows how a lack of security directly and indirectly affects investment in the region. The hope is that by addressing  these issues, regional governments will begin to recapture an appropriate proportional share of global FDI, thus increasing economic growth and ultimately strengthening democracy and its institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.