Latin American Economy & Business - April 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)

Fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is sub-optimal.... Read More

As this issue went to press there were indications that Canada, Mexico and the United States might be close to announcing a partial deal on their renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).... Read More

Brookings, the US-based economic and social think tank, in collaboration with the Uruguay-based Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES), has just published a collection of essays focusing on the economic policy dilemmas facing the region, under the title ‘Spotlight Latin America’.... Read More

Predictions of global warming and extreme weather generate serious concern but often seem to be somewhere in the indeterminate future and, on top of that, difficult to quantify.... Read More

Peru has a new President: Martín Vizcarra, who was sworn in on 23 March after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was forced to resign amid a storm of corruption allegations and congressional hostility.... Read More

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Two parallel stories are unfolding in Brazil.... Read More

Ten years after the former President Hugo Chavez oversaw a currency revamp that saw three zeroes knocked off the existing bolivar, with the launch of a new “strong” bolivar (bolivar fuerte), current President Nicolas Maduro is doing the same thing.... Read More

More stringent tax transparency requirements on the part of the international community are having implications for governments presiding over economies with significant offshore banking sectors – including the Bahamas.... Read More

More on-and-offshore acreage will be auctioned in the region this year than ever before, providing a possibly unique opportunity for international oil and gas companies to win exploration and production contracts in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.... Read More

Grenada’s prime minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, announced on 11 March (just a day before the islands’ general election in which his New National Party (NPP) won a clean sweep of parliamentary seats) that a “significant oil and gas find” had been located in the country’s waters.... Read More

Amazon in Brazil talks: Us online retailer Amazon.com was in late March reported to be involved in talks to acquire the Via Varejo retail chain in Brazil from the controlling group Casino Guichard Perrachon SA of France.... Read More