Why Latin America is missing out on the inflows

With emerging markets as an asset class hotter than ever, it might be expected that capital flows to them would also be hitting all-time highs. That would be the correct view of the aggregate situation: according to the Institute of International Finance, net private capital flows to emerging markets topped $500 billion in 2006 – the second year in succession that has happened. (In 2004, by contrast, those flows were a “mere” $350 billion.)

Latin America, however, seems to have been left out of the party somewhat.