If they can offer lower interest rates, capital markets could well take up the slack in infrastructure financing in Latin America left by dwindling overseas investment, Oxford Analytica predicts in a January 30 article. Bank loans continue to be the main source of infrastructure finance in Latin America. But with no recovery of overseas investment in sight for the region’s private water, power, transport, and telecommunications projects, local bond and equity markets are now part of the equation, Oxford Analytica says.

This is also what I was seeing for new opportunity for development and and social-impact oriented initiatives. Why not using an internet platform for investors to find out about profitable and civic investments?
Posted by: Beatrice | August 07, 2007 at 07:58 AM