San Jose, Costa Rica is ranked 23rd, Guatemala City is 37th, Tegucigalpa is 41st, Managua is 43rd, San Salvador is 44th, and San Pedro Sula is 46th.
This is the second edition of the ranking of the most attractive cities in Latin America for investment, which is a product of joint work by the Center for Competitive Thinking Strategies (CEPEC) at the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia and the Chilean firm Business Intelligence (IdN). It identifies the cities in the Latin American region which bring together the best conditions for investment.
The top ten ranking cities are Santiago, São Paulo, C. Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, C. Panama, Lima, Monterrey, Bogota and Brasilia, in that order.
Source: Universidad del Rosario
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May 2009
In 11th place, Panama City is the leader in Central America in AméricaEconomía’s City Ranking 2009.
Then, from the middle down in the table of 50, San Jose is 31, followed by Guatemala 37, San Salvador 44 and Tegucigalpa 47.
The rankings, which were elaborated by AméricaEconomía Intelligence, incorporated "a new approach in the methodology for assessing the business profile of Latin cities this year.
September 2010
These sectors are highlighted as having strong potential to attract foreign investment.
Those are some of the conclusions from a report called Analysis of Investment Policy requested to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) by the Guatemalan government.
April 2010
In order to receive more foreign investment and take advantage of the benefits introduced by DR-CAFTA, Nicaragua must improve its business climate.
This was the message conveyed by Walter Bastian, U.S. Commerce Sub secretary, who remarked that Nicaraguan exports to the U.S. have increased 37% in the four years of DR-CAFTA, going from $500 million to $1.39 billion in 2009.
November 2009
It seems that not everyone in Funes' Government shares his objective of making investors feel secure.
Referencing policies implemented by Chilean governments, Rafael Castellanos wrote in Laprensagrafica.com: " 1) It is necessary to enlarge the social security network and 2) To reduce poverty we need growth, and to grow we need to attract foreign investment, and for this we need to make investors feel safe, we need them to be sure that the Government won't change the rules at any moment, in the long term required for obtaining returns over investments. Those are two key pillars for Chile's success".
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