Latin American Economy & Business - April 2015 (ISSN 1741-7430)

At last, after months of delay, Petrobras has published its accounts.... Read More

April could be called ‘forecast month’, with a range of multilateral institutions reviewing their forecasts for Latin American economies.... Read More

Recent economic data from Brazil has been dismal.... Read More

In spite of the fall in energy and mineral prices, Colombia continues to manage sustainable growth and tolerably low inflation.... Read More

According to Peru’s national statistics institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, [INE]), the proportion of the population living in poverty fell by 1.2 percentage points in 2014, to 22.7%, down from 23.9% in 2013.... Read More

The Summit of the Americas (SOA) held in Panama City on 10-11 April will go down in history as a major political landmark, symbolised by the handshake between Presidents Barack Obama of the US and Raúl Castro of Cuba.... Read More

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has suggested that Latin America could learn some useful economic lessons from South Korea.... Read More

Ecopetrol to divest ISA stake... Read More

On 14 April, President Barack Obama notified the US Congress of his intention to remove Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism (SSOT).... Read More

For Latin America and the Caribbean, most economic trends in recent months have been negative.... Read More

On 21 April Argentina sold around US$1.4bn in US dollar-denominated bonds to local banks and institutional investors.... Read More