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Economy & Business - December 2011 (ISSN 1741-7430)
What the slowdown means
The zero GDP growth figures for the third quarter were well trailed by the government which neatly avoided them becoming a challenge to its economic management credentials. President Dilma Rousseff insists that Brazil is ‘armoured’ against the continuing global turbulence and has encouraged Brazilians to “keep on producing and consuming”. Industry too took the figures in its stride. On 7 December the Brazilian motor industry reported that it had hired 29 more people in November than in October.
- A better 2012 in prospect
- Set fair
- Poverty problems
- What the slowdown means
- ARGENTINA: Dollar problems
- CHILE: Lowering expectations
- PARAGUAY: Inflation comes to hand
- URUGUAY: IMF applauds but warns about inflation
- BOLIVIA: The model still works
- COLOMBIA: Central bank faces both ways
- ECUADOR: Deficit down, but only thanks to oil
- PERU: An export boom
- VENEZUELA: A strange economy
- COSTA RICA: Another whopping deficit
- CUBA: Advertising and used car sales
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PRD tries to attack on economy
- EL SALVADOR: Tax reforms loom
- GUATEMALA: Exports boom
- HONDURAS: Back in with Venezuela
- NICARAGUA: A new record
- PANAMA: Still booming
- OIL IN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador’s Yasuní to go ahead
- MINING: Ecuador opens up to Kinross
- AGRICULTURE: Ecuador sets 2012 banana prices
- DEBT: Bond issuance falls to lowest level since 1998