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Economy & Business - November 2011 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Gliding towards sustainability
The many doubters of Brazil’s economic managers simply will not give up. Earlier this year they were warning about inflation accelerating. Now they are worrying that the economy’s slowdown will turn into a bust. It is significant that Dagong China’s credit rating agency which was the first to rate Brazil a single A has now been followed by Standard & Poor’s, one of the world’s traditional credit rating agencies. S&P made its move in November 2011. Dagong has been rating Brazil a single A since May 2010.
- What do the poverty figures mean
- Surprisingly good
- Gliding towards sustainability
- ARGENTINA: A raging argument
- CHILE: Growth slows
- PARAGUAY: The cost of the rising dollar
- URUGUAY: Inflation becomes a problem
- BOLIVIA: Microfinance problems
- COLOMBIA: Central bank tightens
- ECUADOR: Budget and new taxes
- PERU: Still growing well
- VENEZUELA: Growing respectably again
- COSTA RICA: Budget approved but fiscal reform nixed
- CUBA: Building from the bottom
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pre-election giveaway
- EL SALVADOR: Budget approved
- GUATEMALA: Congress approves US$7.6bn budget
- HONDURAS : No comment from IMF
- NICARAGUA: Ortega boosts budget
- Panama: IMF raises GDP forecast
- Big gas find in Argentina concentrates minds in Bolivia
- MEXICO & SHALE GAS: Onto the bandwagon
- CHILE: Codelco threatens Anglo over Mitsubishi deal
- Embraer cosies up to the US & finds its niche
- DEBT: Brazil upgraded