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Economy & Business - August 2003
Commodity briefs
BANANAS: The EU heatwave has depressed demand for Ecuadorean bananas. The country said that in the first half of the year it had been exporting an average of 345,000t of bananas a month to the
EU. Since July this has dropped to 275,000t. Banana prices in the EU have dropped to under US$10 per 18-kg box.
- Mexico stalls as Brazil gets into gear
- Brazil makes alliances while Mexico fumes
- The attractions of China and Brazil
- Unemployment jumps to the top of the agenda
- FDI tumbles
- All systems go
- Motor industry at half speed
- ARGENTINA: Relief as industry grows again
- ARGENTINA: Problems with the IMF
- PARAGUAY: Duarte's grim inheritance
- URUGUAY: The banks one year on
- VENEZUELA: Wrecked but creditworthy
- COLOMBIA: Better still
- ECUADOR: Politial problems for Gutierrez
- PERU: Silva Ruete moves to the central bank
- BOLIVIA: Business pooh-poohs government
- COSTA RICA: Too much of a good thing?
- CUBA: Better tomorrows
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Economy slumps, but tourism picks up
- EL SALVADOR: Handal talks the talk as FMLN lead polls
- GUATEMALA: Free-trade negotiating team dropped
- HONDURAS: IMF doubts
- NICARAGUA: IMF approves spending increase
- PANAMA: Political pot starts to boil
- PRIVATIZATION: Brazil oil concession auction barely tempts foreigners
- The Pemex problem
- CORPORATE PROFILE: Karsten trying to establish a brand
- Gas problems in Peru and Bolivia
- Commodity briefs
- Venezuela and the capital markets