It is called Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), to the measurement of real entry and exit of investments or foreign or local capital in a country, the data collection methodology is given by the Manual of balance of payments and international investment position of the Fund International Monetary and by the OECD economic committee.7 This to achieve a real global and comparative measurement, in accordance with the international regulations of the International Monetary Fund, OECD, World Bank. This is due to the fact that the measurements are independent from country to country, and eventually tend to differ in a macro comparison due to the integration of methodological variants which may or may not be considered as Foreign Direct Investment, this taking into account the consideration of factors such as Liabilities / Assets, indebtedness and capitalization rates, equity, relative reinvestment, profits, stock packages and other types of investments.
According to the world bank, the Latin American economy at market prices (purchasing power parity) is the third largest and most powerful in the world with 6.06 trillion dollars. It is mainly based on a secondary and / or tertiary economy.
The largest economies in Latin America, based on GDP PPP (purchasing power parity), are led by Brazil, with 3.30 trillion dollars, Mexico, with 2.61 trillion according to IMF projections in April 2021.