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Foreign investment has been one of the principal engines of economic development in Latin America since the second half of the nineteenth century, and should continue to be so in the foreseeable future, but we must be aware that in the future foreign investment will have to perform tasks which are less adaptable to its nature than those it executed so efficiently in the past.
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Pazos, F. (1992). New Direction of Foreign Investment in Developing Countries. In: Jorge, A., Salazar-Carrillo, J. (eds) The Latin American Debt. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12051-2_3
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