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Economy & Business - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-7430)
ECUADOR: A bullish budget
The government has started to float some of its budget assumptions for 2012 in the media. The key economic variable for Ecuador is the oil price. The drop in oil prices after the apparent fall of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on 23 August has perturbed some local economists.
- Counter-cyclical policies
- MEXICO: Slowing down
- BRAZIL: Different times, different policies
- ARGENTINA: Cristina looks set for re-election
- CHILE: Inflation to fall but growth to hold up
- PARAGUAY: More than OK
- URUGUAY: Still booming
- BOLIVIA: Ins and outs in the cement market
- COLOMBIA: Going steady
- ECUADOR: A bullish budget
- PERU: A good start
- VENEZUELA: Shedding some light on the Fonden
- COSTA RICA: Lowering rates
- CUBA: Government claims tourism picking up
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Election temperature rises
- EL SALVADOR: Stumbling
- GUATEMALA: Tax collection up, but budget slashed
- HONDURAS: Problems ahead
- NICARAGUA: Coffee exports up
- PANAMA: Decent first half
- OIL: Mexico allows private sector back into oil production
- MINING: Mining companies agree new royalty system
- AGRIBUSINESS: Mozambique courts Brazilians
- VEHICLES: The contrast between Brazil and Mexico
- DEBT: Argentina imposes order on credit rating agencies