| Headline: Lativa - below the radar screen Source: Euromoney Date: May 2000
The size issue has pushed Latvia well below the radar screens of most major foreign direct investors, other than for names like the ubiquitous McDonald's and Coca-Cola. The country has also failed to attract the attention of fund managers and, the occasional debt issue or GDR aside, is only of exceedingly thin interest to the dealmakers of the investment-banking world. To compound matters further, Latvia will not be pigeon-holed, unlike Poland, which is huge, already a member of NATO, has its man in the Vatican, millions of ethnic cousins in New York, Chicago and Washington, and is considered an adjacent suburb of Germany. |