Papers & Reports

The North American Competitiveness Council provided a report on April 22 at the North American Leaders Summit in New Orleans. The report argues that government and business leaders must work harder to broaden public understanding of the benefits that flow from liberalized trade and investment within North America.

Published by Jorge Pinto Books, the Spanish-language book of the AS/COA Rule of Law Working Group includes new data, graphs and other information updated from the July 2007 English-language version.

The AS/COA Rule of Law Working Group report focuses on how to improve and strengthen the rule of law in the Americas.

A Report of the Council of the Americas’ Energy Action Group

Founded in 1948, the Mexico-US Business Committee (MEXUS) is the oldest bi-national private sector business organization with a focus on economic, commercial, and political relations in North America.

This report highlights investment trends over the past two decades and shows some of the reasons why Latin American and Caribbean nations are losing investors to other regions of the world. It also shows how a lack of security directly and indirectly affects investment in the region. The hope is that by addressing  these issues, regional governments will begin to recapture an appropriate proportional share of global FDI, thus increasing economic growth and ultimately strengthening democracy and its institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.