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A City Sidesteps Federal Help

Feb 1, 2004

The quest for money to build a water treatment plant led a Mexican city to devise a new financing mechanism that may help raise money for local government projects in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. Tlalnepantla is a municipality in metropolitan Mexico City that is home to many industrial plants and has a AA local credit rating. Bankers at Protego, a Mexican boutique,...

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