The Latin America and Caribbean-OECD Investment Initiative aims to increase the contribution of private investment to economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It does so through peer dialogue, both between governments as well as between governments and investors.
   

The Initiative helps governments create better policies at three levels:

• through general improvements to the investment climate (e.g. trade facilitation, investment incentives and links to related policies based on the OECD Investment Policy Framework (PFI));
• through more focused approaches that reflect the particular needs of specific sectors (e.g. investment in agriculture or in economic zones);
• through initiatives that enhance the development contribution of private investment (e.g. creating fairer public-private partnerships for essential infrastructure and linking investment policies with other sustainable policies (quality of investments)).

The Initiative was officially launched in September 2010 in Santiago, Chile.
   

The Initiative inscribes itself into and supports the OECD LAC Regional Programme.

Events

• 17th OECD LAC Investment Network meeting, 19 October 2022

• 16th OECD LAC Investment Network meeting, 28 June 2022

• 15th OECD LAC Investment Network meeting, 29 November 2021

• Minutes of the MERCOSUR-OECD Investment seminar, 18 November 2021 

• LAC Investment webinar: "La inversión internacional en América Latina, nuevas tendencias en un mundo post-COVID", 21 July 2021 
  
  
• 14th OECD LAC Investment Network meeting, 28 October 2020
  
  
• Regional Workshop on Investment Promotion and Sustainable Development co-organised with Proinversión in Lima, 19 November 2019
  
  
• 13th OECD LAC Investment Network meeting, 22 October 2019
  
  
• Launch of the OECD-IDB publication on Investment Promotion Agencies in Buenos Aires, July 2019

DOCUMENTS AND LINKS

How to Solve the Investment Promotion Puzzle

OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Policy Framework for Investment

OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure

Private sector participation in the water and sanitation sector‌