The annual LAVCA Scorecard ranks business environments for private equity and venture capital activity of 12 countries in Latin America on a scale of 1-100 (with 100 being the most investment friendly) based on indicators including taxation, minority shareholder rights, restrictions on institutional investors, entrepreneurship and capital markets development.
Chile, Brazil and Mexico lead the annual ranking in the seventh edition of the LAVCA Scorecard.
Rounding out the top five countries in this year’s ranking were Colombia and Uruguay, with no change in overall scores. Click here { } to read the 2012 LAVCA Scorecard press release.
The seventh edition of the Annual LAVCA Scorecard was produced in collaboration with the Economic Intelligence Unit, the Multilateral Investment Fund and the Andean Development Corporation.
The 2012 LAVCA Scorecard is available for download here.
New Online Platform
LAVCA worked with Latin American startup Junar to develop an online platform with information from the 2012 Scorecard.