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Economy & Business - July 2007 (ISSN 1741-4431)
REMITTANCES: The downside to remittances
The US has become the principal beneficiary of the migration from
Caribbean countries of their best educated people. But the US is not the only
developed country that has benefited from the Caribbean's investment in the
education of its people: Canada, Holland and Britain are also major
beneficiaries of the brain drain from the Caribbean.
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- FISCAL REFORM: Mexican government resigned to tax changes
- BRAZIL: Dollar continues to weaken as interest rates slashed
- ARGENTINA: Energy crisis bites
- URUGUAY: Inflation worries
- CHILE: Central bank raises rates
- PARAGUAY: Importers oppose higher tariffs
- BOLIVIA: Morales argues that inflation is inevitable
- COLOMBIA: The benefits of the strong peso
- ECUADOR: Diversifying exports
- VENEZUELA: Cabezas promises another package
- PERU: Central bank raises rates
- COSTA RICA: Banks raise profits by 11%
- CUBA: Castro rails against waste
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Inflation down to 0.4%
- EL SALVADOR: Tax collection surges
- PANAMA: 9% growth in first quarter
- GUATEMALA: Central bank reins in credit
- HONDURAS: Trade deficit gaping
- NICARAGUA: IMF money to be used for energy
- AGRIBUSINESS: UN and US disagree massively over coca
- ENERGY: Chávez forecasts oil at US$100 a barrel
- MINING: Antofagasta give go-ahead to Esperanza
- BUSINESS: Who is going to build a refinery in Central America?
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