End of preview - This article contains approximately 1154 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Caribbean & Central America - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HONDURAS: Congress approves model cities’ charter
President Porfirio Lobo’s flagship plan for Honduras – a model cities project – has been approved by congress. The government is reportedly in talks with investors from Canada, South Korea and the UK about various projects, all of which on paper look more like large commercial enterprises rather than the charter cities along the lines of Hong Kong envisaged by Paul Romer, the ex-Stanford economist who first convinced Lobo that Honduras could benefit from such self administered enclaves. Lobo hopes to get the ball rolling on the first charter city before his term ends in 2013.
- Steps forward and back as Guatemala addresses civil war past
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: GUATEMALA
- PANAMA: Ruling party goes from strength to strength
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: PANAMA
- NICARAGUA: Ortega faces new challenge
- EL SALVADOR: “Fabulous four” triumph
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: EL SALVADOR
- COSTA RICA: Strike ends with little to show
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: COSTA RICA
- REGION: Tough trip to a rough destiny
- HONDURAS: Congress approves model cities’ charter
- CUBA: Castro bowls on with reform efforts
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Election temperature rises
- REGION: Caribbean trailing Latam neighbours
- POINTERS
- Rudderless Martelly tries to steer a course