ECLAC Will Release New Figures for Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Follow the live transmission as from 11:00 hrs. on 14 May.

(8 May 2013) On Tuesday 14 May 2013 at 11.00 a.m., the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch the annual report Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2012 at the Commission's headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The document's main conclusions will be presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, at a press conference that will be broadcast live online using the following link.

The 15th edition of this annual ECLAC report includes the amount of foreign direct investment received by each country in 2012 and a regional projection for 2013.

The report also tackles the impact of FDI on employment and the confirmed expansion of transnational Latin American enterprises - known as trans-Latins.

Other topics covered are as follows:

• Regional and worldwide overview of foreign direct investment.
• Repatriation of capital and reinvestment of FDI profits by transnational enterprises.
• Foreign direct investment in the region's agricultural and agroindustrial sector.

    The media are invited to attend the report launch, which will be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Celso Furtado Conference Room).

Please use the following link to watch the live online on Tuesday 14 May.

ECLAC Public Information and Web Services Section.

E-mail: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: (56 2) 2210 2040.

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