L’Amérique Latine en plein essor est ignorée. Une multitude d’opportunités d’investissements n’est pas exploitée.

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Booming Latin America being ignored, experts say. A wealth of investment opportunities being left on the table

[MarketWatch]

As Asian countries garner the majority of the world’s attention, global growth opportunities in Latin American countries have been treated with “benign neglect,” according to foreign policy and financial experts who spoke at a panel Monday.

The economic community has been “too transfixed with Asia and China” -- and the result is a wealth of investment opportunities left on the table, said Antoine W. Van Agtmael, a senior adviser at Garten Rothkopf and author of “The Emerging Markets Century”. The panelists at the event, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, agreed that the economic progress of Latin American countries has largely been overlooked by developed nations, despite continued growth and progress towards stabilizing the region’s economic outlook. The reduction in poverty and rise of the middle class have added stability in the region, said Claudio M. Loser, president of Centennial Group Latin America and former director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund. Latin America has seen improvements in commodity prices in recent decades and implemented a system of banking supervision that has helped to improve the region’s macroeconomic outlook, said Loser.
Loser named Mexico one of the most important countries in the region, saying that it “has better prospects than Brazil at the moment.”

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