Latin American Economy & Business
Latin American Economy & Business - May 2019
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- Analysing the trade war scenario
Regional Economy Review
- Venezuela: Dollar shortages complicate efforts to ease capital controls
- Colombia: Rock-bottom coffee prices cause problems for farmers
- Mexico: OECD strikes a cautious note over 2019 prospects
- Economic Highlights
- Mexico: Resource nationalism: will it work?
Regional Business Review
- Chile: Chinese funds to see bullet train link Santiago and Valparaíso
- Central America: Private sector actors and anti-extortion efforts in Honduras and Guatemala
- Uruguay: Green light for UPM2
Trade tensions between the US and China have taken a turn for the worse.
Latin American Economy & Business - April 2019
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- Tighter sanctions on Venezuela make life tricky for Cuban government
Regional Economy Review
- Argentina: Economic crisis shows no signs of abating six months before election
- Region: Prosur offers tenuous promise of economic cooperation
- Bolivia: Good, but not that good?
- Region: Key to growth - good ports
- Panama: Nito’s recipe for growth
- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Regional Business Review
- Brazil: Rumo SA wins concession for North-South Trainline
- Mexico: Food self-sufficiency
- Mexico: Trump comments raise border worries
- Mexico: AMLO moderates his stance towards banks
The US government is ratcheting up the pressure on the Venezuelan administration led by President Nicolás Maduro, cracking down on those international trading relationships that are perceived to sustain the Maduro government.
Latin American Economy & Business - March 2019
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- Anatomy of a catastrophic blackout
Regional Economy Review
- Venezuela: Health crisis threatens regional economies
- Costa Rica: The race to a net zero-carbon economy
- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
- Costa Rica: Alvarado’s beleaguered tax reform finally passes congress
- Brazil: Guedes warns against watered-down pension reform
- Region: Caribbean angered by EU blacklist
- Argentina: Economic outlook still cloudy
- Ecuador: New IMF agreement is finalised
Regional Business Review
- Chile: Electric bus deal heralds deeper relationship with China
- Colombia: ProColombia drums up extra investment
- Mexico: AMLO presses ahead with refinery project
Venezuela has just suffered one Latin America’s longest power cuts.
Latin American Economy & Business - February 2019
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- Which way for El Salvador’s economic policy?
Special Focus
- Region: Economic growth and family remittances to Central America in 2018
Regional Economy Review
- Cuba: Concerns mount on several fronts
- Ecuador: IMF confirms progress towards loan deal
- Brazil: Central bank holds interest rates again
- Brazil: Great Expectations
- Haiti: Government declares economic state of emergency
- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Regional Business Review
- Brazil: Few signs of change after latest mining disaster
- Region: How fast will EV take-up happen?
- Venezuela: Oil output plunges: what chances (eventual) recovery?
Nayib Bukele won the El Salvador elections on 3 February with a near-landslide (53.1% of the vote, more than his two main rivals combined).
Latin American Economy & Business - January 2019
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- Poverty contained?
Regional Economy Review
- Region: Brazil and Mexico to set the tone
- Mexico: The economics of oil theft
- Venezuela: Economic emergency measures – not much changes
- Argentina: Tackling the deficit-inflation dilemma
- Brazil: Brazil’s stock market booms, but will it last?
- Brazil: Bolsonaro tries to woo investors in Davos
- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
- Brazil: Pension reform ideas start to circulate
- Guyana: Upcoming early election raises questions over future economic policy stance
- Ecuador: Oil production struggles
- Jamaica: Government targets development of stock market
Regional Business Review
- Bolivia: Navigating a “sea of gas”
- Region: Despite obstacles, e-commerce set to grow
- Chile: Copper set for modest improvement
- Brazil: Ex-admiral appointed chairman of state oil giant Petrobras
The end of the commodities boom in 2012-2013 triggered five years of slower growth in Latin America and prompted fears that poverty would once more increase.