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Economy & Business - March 2005
COLOMBIA: Government defeated by dollar
The government announced on 2 March that it will abandon its capital controls. They were brought on 15 December, to try to stop the dollar falling against the peso. The finance minister, Alberto Carrasquilla, admitted that the controls had not worked. Carrasquilla said that the controls would end within the next six months.
- Commodities rise again, changing dynamics
- What's going to happen in 2005?
- Problems loom
- Copom tightens again
- ARGENTINA: Worries mount
- CHILE: Copper boom
- PARAGUAY: Off the bottom
- URUGUAY: Exports buoyant
- VENEZUELA: Unemployment jumps
- BOLIVIA: Congress approves hydrocarbons law
- COLOMBIA: Government defeated by dollar
- PERU: Exports surge
- ECUADOR: Bit of a boom
- NICARAGUA: Inflation stalks
- PANAMA: Decent growth in 2004
- COSTA RICA: Coffee worries
- CUBA: Drought worsens
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Growth of 2% in 2004
- EL SALVADOR: Business call for shift to 5% plus growth
- GUATEMALA: Protests over Cafta
- HONDURAS: Strike to back 2000 wage demand
- The downside to the soya boom
- Nickel; oil; sugar
- COFFEE: Bulls in control
- MEXICO: Reforms of state sector possible eventually
- GUATEMALA: Up by 9%
- DEBT: The Argentine debt swap