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Economy & Business - March 2005
COSTA RICA: Coffee worries
Coffeemen are worried that the steadiness of prices is encouraging people to enter the coffee growing industry again. They say that this could lead to another wave of over-production and a consequent puncturing of prices. Coffee, along with bananas, leads the list of the country's traditional exports.
- 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