* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has published its latest monthly economic activity index (Imae) for July, which showed a -4.2% fall in activity compared with the same month in 2017. The BCN points out that this was nonetheless an improvement on the -12.0% year-on-year fall in activity registered in June. The drop in economic activity stems from the crisis caused by the government crackdown on protesters which began mid-April and which has seen three national strikes staged by the Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (Alianza Cívica) opposition movement - comprising students, civil-society groups, and the private sector. The BCN also published its latest trade figures which showed that Nicaragua’s exports totalled US$1.61bn in the first seven months of 2018, down from US$1.67bn in the same period in 2017. As regards export markets, the US accounted for 42.4% of the total, El Salvador 9.6%, Costa Rica 5.4%, Guatemala 4.5%, and mainland China 4%.
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