ECLAC to Launch a Report on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011

(24 April 2012) The capital flows having entered the region last year reached historic records, as stated in the annual report Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2011, to be launched by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Thursday 3 May in Chile.

The report will be presented by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC Alicia Bárcena at a press conference taking place at 11:00 am at the regional commission's headquarters in Santiago.

The document elaborates on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows received by each country in the region during 2011, as well as on a regional prospect for 2012.

The fourteenth edition of this ECLAC annual report also includes an analysis of investments made by Latin American transnational corporations abroad, the latter also being known as trans-Latins.

Other topics addressed in this ECLAC publishing are the following:

• World overview of foreign direct investment (FDI).
• Capital repatriation and reinvestment of profits deriving from FDI by transnational corporations.
• The importance of the FDI inflows from the European Union to Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Technology intensity and research and development activities of transnational corporations.          
• Foreign banks in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Foreign direct investment in the electricity sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The media are invited to attend the launching of the report, to take place at ECLAC Headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Celso Furtado Conference Room).

For further questions, please contact ECLAC's Public Information and Web Services Unit. E-mail: dpisantiago@cepal.org ; Tel.: (56 2) 210 2040.

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