This presentation, directed to private sector investors from Finland, is about the investment climate for sustainable … forest businesses in selected Latin American countries. The Forest Investment Attractiveness Index (IAIF) and the Process to … Improve the Business Climate for Forest Investment (PROMECIF) were also discussed as tools to measure and help to improve the …

and programs to improve the business climate and investment for private sector-driven growth; and, (ii) labor market …

index is not designed as an investment tool for private sector financiers (as the data and indicators are largely …

In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment … well as Latin America, and control for the standard determinants of their inward direct investment. They then add PRC …'s inward foreign direct investment as an indicator of the "PRC Effect". Estimation of the coefficient associated with the PRC …

This presentation discusses how the Forest Investment Attractiveness Index (IAIF) and the Process to Improve the … Business Climate for Forest Investment (PROMECIF) can be useful to improve forest sector governance. The general objective of … systematic, periodic, quantitative and more rigorous analyses of the factors that affect the success of forest direct investment …

empirical exercises that follow. First, a brief stylized description of two different approaches to foreign investment that have …