Latin American Economy & Business - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-7430)

The global economy is not giving Latin America and the Caribbean much help this year. But it is also true that the region is not doing very much to help itself. Exports have pretty much stopped dead in their tracks; the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (known by its Spanish /Portuguese acronym CEPAL) says this weak performance is storing up problems for the future.