Global Head of Equities at Grupo Santander Dario Lizzano believes 2007 will mark a fifth consecutive year of positive returns for regional equities and outperformance over both emerging and developed markets. Improvements in the region’s economic position are linked to both domestic and external factors.

Volume 4, Issue 8  Manuel Álvarez-Trongé

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.