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

Leader
The headline numbers suggest that Latin America and the Caribbean has done very well, as a region, to develop internet connectivity and capture what might be called ‘the digital dividend’ – the extra business opportunities and competitive edge that comes from using online systems.... Read More
Regional Business Review
The trans-oceanic railway, known in Spanish as the Corredor Ferroviario Bioceánico Central, designed to provide an east-west freight transport link stretching across South America from Santos or Açu on Brazil’s Atlantic coast to Ilo on Peru’s Pacific coast, is nothing if not ambitious.... Read More
Big Cola makes African move: Big Cola, the soft-drink brand controlled by Peru’s Aje Group, is initiating operations in Africa, where it has opened two bottling plants, one in Nigeria and the other in Egypt.... Read More
Special Focus
Venezuela’s state-owned energy company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (Pdvsa), barely generated any cash from its unprofitable oil and gas operations in 2014, when the average oil price received from its export customers was US$88/barrel (/b).... Read More
Regional Economic Review
There are signs that the recovery is gathering pace in the Peruvian economy.... Read More
The fiscal austerity programme introduced in early 2015 by Brazil’s newly appointed finance minister, Joaquim Levy, was seen at the time as the key to restoring business and consumer confidence in the Brazilian economy.... Read More
There are two ways to think about Argentina’s economic problems in the current election period.... Read More
The latest (June 2015) monthly economic and financial report from the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB) indicates that overall economic growth is likely to remain sluggish.... Read More
Postscript
On 25 August Brazil’s Real fell to R$3.6/US$1, a twelve-year low.... Read More

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