Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews. In this way an attempt is made to compensate for some of the deficiencies of the official information by backing it up with additional data and analysis on international market trends, national policies and, in particular, corporate strategies, especially in so far as they affect Latin America and the Caribbean. By complementing official data on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows with the analysis of corporate strategies, it is possible to arrive at a better understanding of the international systems of integrated production operating in the region. [author]

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