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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 23 August 2018
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Development: On 22 August, legislators from Fuerza Revolucionaria del Común, the political party made up of former members of Colombia’s demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, presented a bill proposing differential treatment for small-scale farmers who cultivate illegal crops.... Read More
Bolivia: A local private sector lobby, IBCE, has released a new report which shows that Bolivia’s net international reserves (RIN) dropped to US$9.17bn in August (equivalent to 27% of GDP) down from US$15bn at its peak in 2014 (when it was equivalent to 45% of GDP).... Read More
Development: On 22 August, Brazil’s federal public security minister, Raul Jungmann, met Colombia’s foreign minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, in Bogotá, where they discussed questions of border security, migration issues, and how to cooperate in the fight against organised crime.... Read More
From Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group
In this August edition of Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we begin by looking at Peru where from January 2019, the country’s savings and credit cooperatives will be subject to financial regulation by the Superintendencia de Banca y Seguros y AFP (SBS), the autonomous government agency responsible for the regulation and supervision of the Peruvian financial system.... Read More
From January 2019, Peru’s savings and credit cooperatives will be subject to financial regulation by the Superintendencia de Banca y Seguros y AFP (SBS), the autonomous government agency responsible for the regulation and supervision of the Peruvian financial system.... Read More
Last year saw various mining and oil projects cancelled in Colombia following popular consultation processes, known as consultores populares.... Read More
Bolivia has undergone significant social and economic transformations since Evo Morales became President in 2006.... Read More
Hyperinflation is now causing severe problems in Venezuela, rendering the economy totally dysfunctional.... Read More
ECUADOR | IDB cooperation.... Read More
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- Colombia’s Farc puts forward first proposed bill
- In brief: Bolivia
- Brazil’s public security minister visits Colombia
- Introduction
- Money laundering in Peru’s cooperatives sector
- Social acceptability concerns threaten Colombia’s mining sector
- Bolivia’s changing socioeconomic inequality and class structure
- Hyperinflation razes the Venezuelan economy
- Economic Highlights