FDI reached 3 percent of GDP in Latin America
Peru and the Dominican Republic jumped on LBC’s FDI Index. Chile in the lead this year.
Trade with China is reaching more normal rates of yearly growth; Colombia and Costa Rica are this year’s success stories.
IMF report predicts modest growth, and urges the region’s economies to lay the groundwork for long-term, sustainable development.
Remittances were largely flat year-over-year in 2012 due to a sluggish Spanish economy.
Haiti, Venezuela, and Honduras top our index for the second year as the most dangerous countries in the Americas.
Students with limited access to education in Latin America sometimes fail to develop cognitive skills needed for success. Latin Education Index shows how Guatemala and Haiti lag in this area.
Bolivia’s government is wealthier than ever, but institutions are weaker than ever, experts say.
The most important actor in the economy is the state, Bolivia's Minister of Economy & Public Finance says.
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela are among the most repressed economies in the world.
Brazil, Peru and the Gulf of Mexico are helping Repsol reduce exposure to volatile markets like Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela.
Swedish-owned Millicom is carving out a profitable niche in Latin America's wireless sector.
Only Zimbabwe has higher inflation than Venezuela. Other inflation losers include Bolivia and Nicaragua.
President Chavez's intrusion in the internal affairs of Bolivia is raving interventionism and a flagrant attack on national sovereignty.
Expropriations grow in Venezuela, but Bolivia is worst in Latin America when it comes to property rights.
To counter Chavez, the United States should approve existing free trade agreements and negotiate new ones as well as extend trade preferences to Bolivia and Ecuador.
What's at stake today in the Andean nation is nothing less than a continental expansion of socialism devised by Hugo Chávez.
Why the nationalization of telecommunications and electricity in Venezuela, along with resource nationalism in South America, is a big mistake.
Like Cuba before it, Venezuela is moving rapidly in the direction of state fascism. And other Chavista nations may follow.
The expansion of Mercosur is weakening, not strengthening, the group, experts warn.
What’s happening in Bolivia should worry democrats throughout the continent, because it is one more expression of the offensive that radical and authoritarian populists have launched in Latin America.
Bolivia’s nationalization of its gas sector will deter foreign investors and further impoverish the country, South America’s poorest, business leaders and experts say.
Chile is the best place for business in Latin America and Haiti the worst. Mexico comes right behind Chile, while Brazil only ranks sixth, the Latin Business Index shows.
Software piracy is growing in Latin America. Bolivia and Paraguay now have the worst piracy rates, while Colombia continues to have the best record.
A compulsory and indiscriminate raise in salaries will only result in reduced employment or a broadening of the informal sector. In effect, worse poverty for the working masses of Bolivia.
Latin American governments must put aside protectionism, eliminate tariffs and respect the contracts they sign, argues Carlos Sabino.
