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Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development:
Lessons from the Americas

May 2008 (48 pages)
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This report, co-edited by Pardee Center Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher (along with Andres Lopez), is an international and institutional collaboration. The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is one of the co-publishers of the report, which was produced by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas..

A key finding of this report and the papers within it is: “A comprehensive review of the impacts of foreign investment liberalization and related economic reforms in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of stimulating broad-based economic grown and environmental protection in the region… The studies in this report highlight the economic, social and environmental costs of the present approach… They also point to some of the ways in which national priorities and international trade agreements can be transformed to better meet social goals.”