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Caribbean & Central America - October 2019
Introduction
The World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness report for 2017-2018 ranked Costa Rica 62nd out of 137 countries for infrastructure competitiveness.... Read More
Central America
While headlines have often focussed on external migration by nationals from Central America’s Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) mainly to Mexico and the US, at the end of August the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) launched a report first published last year on internal displacement in the Northern Triangle.... Read More
On 4 July, the local think tank Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (Icefi) presented the results of a 15-year study, conducted in conjunction with Oxfam, on child malnutrition in Guatemala.... Read More
Paid work is the primary source of income for most people around the world.... Read More
Costa Rica’s government is making a big push to improve its infrastructure in order to improve its global competitiveness for trade and investment.... Read More
Caribbean
Hurricane Dorian, which struck The Bahamas on 1 September and battered Abaco Island and Grand Bahama for almost two days, was one of the most powerful ever experienced in the Caribbean.... Read More
On 16 September, two more significant offshore oil finds were announced in Guyana, one by ExxonMobil and one by Tullow.... Read More
On 15 August, the CEO of Suriname’s state-owned oil company Staatsolie, Rudolf Elias, pronounced that the company would make its first significant oil discovery within three weeks.... Read More
As the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis continues, millions of Venezuelans continue to flee the embattled country.... Read More
Suriname is something of a pariah state, what with its president Desi Bouterse subject to an international arrest warrant for a 2000 drug-trafficking conviction in the Netherlands (in absentia) and on trial for the murder of 15 opposition figures during his military dictatorship in 1982.... Read More
In the May issue Security & Strategic Review we looked at the split within the Caribbean Community (Caricom) over policy towards Venezuela, with some (namely Jamaica, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and St Lucia) recognising Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and the country’s legitimate president.... Read More
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- Introduction
- Internal displacement in the Northern Triangle
- Guatemala’s child malnutrition epidemic hits hard
- AI will shake up Central America’s labour market
- Alvarado looks to private sector to improve Costa Rica’s infrastructure competitiveness
- Focus on building Caribbean hurricane resilience
- Strong Guyanese growth ahead of first oil, but political difficulties persist
- The search goes on in Suriname
- Venezuelan migration to the English-speaking Caribbean
- Russia courts Suriname
- Trinidad still at odds with the US
- Economic Highlights