Latin American Economy & Business
Latin American Economy & Business - December 2018
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- Creating economic development and growth strategies to deal with migration and change in Central America
Regional Economy Review
- Brazil: Campos Neto takes over at Brazil’s central bank
- Brazil: World Bank’s Levy Returns to Run BNDES
- Colombia: U-turn on VAT leaves a hole in the budget
- Argentina: The hard slog
- Economic Highlights
- Costa Rica: Brighter prospects for tax reform
- Uruguay: Lower growth predicted
- Cuba-Venezuela: Trump considers sanctions on Cuban officials
- Jamaica: The inflation conundrum
- Mexico: Trade issues still cloudy as USMCA launches
Regional Business Review
- Brazil: Investors Welcome New Petrobras CEO
- Brazil: Brazil’s exporters fret over Jerusalem embassy move
- Mexico: Public consultations rattle the markets
The current migration crisis in Central America is tied to missing economic reforms and strategies disconnected from the chronic problems in the region.
Latin American Economy & Business - November 2018
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- Patchy regional recovery to continue
Regional Economy Review
- Brazil: Bolsonaro’s vague plans for the economy
- Argentina: IMF programme gains some traction
- Peru: Firing up non-traditional exports
- Costa Rica: Future of tax reform bill remains uncertain
- Economic Highlights
- Mexico: Flying into crosswinds
- Venezuela: Government prioritises servicing Pdvsa 2020 bond
Regional Business Review
- Brazil: Flurry of Brazilian IPOs on back of Bolsonaro win
- Brazil: Energy outlook under the next government
- Mexico: Mixed signs on the oil front
- Panama: The geopolitics and economics of LNG
- Region: Corporate Radar
A series of reports point to modestly improving economic growth across Latin America as a whole in the last quarter of 2018 and extending into 2019.
Latin American Economy & Business - October 2018
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- Hello USMCA
Regional Economy Review
- Argentina: Still not out of the woods
- Brazil: What do the elections mean for the economy?
- Brazil: Problems mount up for the next government
- Region: Don’t spend more, spend better
- Economic Highlights
- Colombia: No jam today
- Venezuela: What is the big sister thinking?
- Region: Andean interest rates heading up?
- Panama: Government seeks to loosen the purse strings
- Region: “Renewed passion and energy” for Caribbean integration
Regional Business Review
- Brazil: Amid higher oil prices, Petrobras targets higher production
- Cuba: Gloomy picture for agricultural sector
- Falklands: Slow progress on Sea Lion project
- Region: Corporate Radar
A deal has finally been done to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which is now re-named the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA.
Latin American Economy & Business - September 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Venezuela’s surreal red package
Special Focus
- Bolivia: The rise of the high-rise: construction and real estate trends
Regional Economy Review
- Mexico: US-Mexico deal not the full Nafta
- Mexico: Questions over AMLO’s Maya train project
- Argentina: Another wave of the currency storm
- Economic Highlights
- Region: Eclac trims back growth
- Region: Higher oil prices failing to bolster the region's economies
- Ecuador: Government efforts to drum up private investment
- Region: Higher metals prices having a more positive impact
Regional Business Review
- Region: Tough times for coffee producers
- Uruguay: Renewable energy on the up
- Brazil: Familiar but different
- Cuba: Authorities explore liberalisation of railways
Venezuela’s descent into hyperinflationary chaos accelerated in August.
Latin American Economy & Business - August 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Foreign direct investment down again in 2017
Special Focus
- Bolivia: A growing appetite for private consumption
Regional Economy Review
- Mexico: Nafta deal looking more likely
- Colombia: Alberto is the man
- Cuba: Signs of movement?
- Economic Highlights
- Region: The recovery is getting tougher for some
- Mexico: AMLO’s signals
- Brazil: Problems stored up for next government
- Region: Making the case for e-government
- Chile: Growth forecast up, but Moody’s still downgrades
- Guatemala: Out of the car and onto the train
Regional Business Review
- Region: Free trade rules (maybe)
- Region: Agro sector set to grow
- Region: Corporate Radar
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flowing into Latin America and the Caribbean fell for the third year running in 2017, down by 3.6% to US$161.7bn, according to a report published in early July by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac).
Latin American Economy & Business - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Getting ready for the trade war
Regional Economy Review
- Region: Alternatives to trickle down
- Mexico: Critical five months start now
- Argentina: Not out of the woods yet
- Cuba: Economic growth deemed “acceptable” in the first half
- Economic Highlights
- Barbados enters selective default
- Ecuador: Deflation begins to weigh on economy
Regional Business Review
- Region: Mobile getting more competitive
- Venezuela: Oil production nosedives
- Brazil: New battle over privatisation
- Region: Corporate Radar
A global trade war may, or may not, be around the corner.
Latin American Economy & Business - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Call to think big on trade
Regional Economy Review
- Region: Currencies take a hit
- Venezuela: Economic crash after the elections?
- Brazil: Truckers’ strike erodes confidence
- Argentina: Making love or war with the IMF?
- Economic Highlights
- Mexico: Nafta renegotiation in difficulties again
- Colombia: Economic suggestions for the next president
- Region: Export growth strong but slowing
- Jamaica: More encouraging prospects
- Chile: Pinera unveils economic plans
Regional Business Review
- Mexico: Business calls time over violence
- Bolivia: Will Morales surf the lithium wave?
- Brazil: Vegetarians in the home of beef
- Region: Corporate Radar
Over roughly the last three decades the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has been laboriously building up a patchwork of free trade agreements and sub-regional trade blocs.
Latin American Economy & Business - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Is Mercosur asleep on the job?
Regional Economy Review
- Dominican Republic: IMF call to rebuild the buffers
- Brazil: Growth without the feel good factor?
- Cuba: Which way for Díaz-Canel?
- Paraguay: Abdo Benítez offers more of the same
- Nicaragua: Booming economy, protests on the streets
- Economic Highlights
- Mexico: Mercurial AMLO
- Argentina: Warning lights flashing
- Ecuador: Fiscal consolidation efforts underwhelm
- Colombia: Solid report card from the IMF
Regional Business Review
- Peru: Mining picks up pace
- Chile: Mining production set to rise
- Region: Corporate Radar
During the decade of the commodity boom (roughly the ten years to 2012) the governments of Argentina and Brazil (the two dominant members of the Mercosur trade bloc, whose other members are Paraguay and Uruguay [and Venezuela – suspended since 2016]) neglected the customs union and bickered between themselves over protective tariffs.
Latin American Economy & Business - April 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Stronger fiscal policies needed
Regional Economy Review
- Mexico: Positive signs on Nafta?
- Region: The Brookings view
- Region: Putting some numbers on climate change
- Peru: Tuesta to chase investment
- Economic Highlights
- Brazil: Political noise versus the economy
- Venezuela: Currency redenomination looms
- Bahamas: Controversy over tax blacklisting by EU
Regional Business Review
- Region: Record number of oil and gas auctions
- Grenada: Large offshore oil find
- Region: Corporate Radar
Fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is sub-optimal.
Latin American Economy & Business - March 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- When stable growth isn’t enough
Special Focus
- Trade Agreements I: Difficult Nafta outlook
- Trade Agreements II: Chile keeps the TPP in play
Regional Economy Review
- Mexico: Weaker fourth quarter
- Argentina: Things to worry about
- Brazil: Pension reform won’t go away
- Region: After China, here comes ‘Latindia’
- Economic Highlights
- Region: Little progress on corruption
- Colombia: Focus on future policies
- Venezuela: Introducing the crypto-petro fantasy
- Chile: Weak growth, but building in confidence
- Cuba: Currency move: believe it when you see it
- Panama: Remaining solid
Regional Business Review
- Region: Global Business Forum: good news for Latam
- Region: Corporate Radar
A recently published Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report[1] puts its finger on an economic conundrum affecting Central America and the Dominican Republic (known as the CADR sub-region).
Latin American Economy & Business - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Time to take the China road?
Regional Economy Review
- El Salvador: Assessing the economic impact of TPS termination
- Argentina: Macri working out the structural reform jigsaw puzzle
- Colombia: Modestly positive outlook for 2018
- Honduras: The economy under Hernández (again)
- Brazil: Relax about now, worry about then
- Mexico: Nafta guessing game continues
- Mexico: Mexican economy bounces back firmly in Q4
- Ecuador: Ecuador returns to international capital markets
- Venezuela: Venezuela announces maxi-devaluation
Special Focus
- Nicaragua: An oasis of stability in a turbulent region
Regional Business Review
- Mexico Mexican wrestling gets ready to compete
- Mexico: Getting ready for carbon trading
- Mexico: Successful deepwater auction
- Uruguay: Unhappy farmers take action
- Peru: Potato troubles
- Region: Corporate Radar
Formally at least, China’s ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is all about building up trade, transport and investment links across Eurasia – and it doesn’t reach as far as Latin America.
Latin American Economy & Business - January 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
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- Moderate improvement in the pace of regional growth
Regional Economy Review
- Cuba: Economic growth surprises on the upside
- Venezuela: Cash-strapped government pins hopes on crypto-currency
- Peru: Political storm clouds the economic outlook
- Chile: Moderate market-friendly reform under Piñera?
- Region: Can Cartes do the deal with Europe?
- Mexico: Still ticking over
- Mexico: Decisive round for Nafta?
- Region: New ways of cooperation against corruption
- Ecuador: Moreno looks to turn over a new page
Special Focus
- Mexico: AML/CFT evaluation – good, but could do better
Regional Business Review
- Argentina: Low cost air travel revolution on the way?
- Brazil: Boeing bids for Embraer
- Brazil: Good news for the auto industry
- Region: US oil output to hit a record high in 2018 on shale boom
- Region: Corporate Radar
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) published its updated estimates and forecasts for the regional economies in 2017 and 2018 on 14 December.