China-Latin America Trade: Balancing out
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.
Latin Business Chronicle interviewed Carlos Raúl Yepes, Bancolombia’s CEO. The bank will not venture outside Central America and the northern tip of South America, but it will continue to look for opportunities in banking and other financial services.
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.
How Costa Rica's Cafe Britt has become the country's most international company. Now it's eyeing Europe and an IPO.
Panama and Uruguay replace Chile in technology and Internet penetration.
Best rules for starting a foreign subsidiary: Costa Rica and Peru. Worst: Venezuela and Ecuador.
The safest and most dangerous countries in Latin America for foreign multinationals and executives.
Best rules for starting a foreign subsidiary: Costa Rica and Peru. Worst: Venezuela and Ecuador.
Latin America's wireless market grew 12.5 percent last year. Brazil leads in real numbers, Panama in penetration.
Lost competitiveness and rising social problems are among the key challenges facing Costa Rica’s first woman president.
While Latin American exports to the United States drop by two digits, they jump from Costa Rica.
Panama leads in arrival growth, while Uruguay grows most in receipts. The Dominican Republic remains the top per capita earner.
Costa Rica's economy slows down, but free trade pacts with the United States and China should help future growth.
Foreign technology firms are eagerly awaiting Costa Rica's long-delayed CAFTA implementation - now finally set for 2009.
Colombia has the lowest piracy rate in Latin America, while Costa Rica is the best country in Central America.
EU trade with Latin America grows twice as much as U.S. trade with the region. Brazil and Paraguay lead the way in growth.
China's trade with, and investments in, Latin America are growing significantly and expected to continue doing so in the future as well.
More foreign hotel operators are setting up in Costa Rica, but strong demand will help the country's real estate sector continue growing.
Panama and CAFTA are most globalized, while Brazil and the Andean Community are the least globalized.
New entrants will help boost Costa Rica's wireless telecom sector to the benefit of all consumers experts say.
With CAFTA passed, Costa Rica now must approve several key laws to comply with the free trade accord.
Costa Rica's approval of CAFTA will be an overall benefit to the Central American country, most experts say.
CAFTA's main effect will be to change Costa Rica's business environment, which needs urgent improvements.
CAFTA will open doors for Costa Rica's workers, farmers, and entrepreneurs.
Affluent U.S. sports fishermen are among the key the target audience of Bahia Escondida, the new resort underway in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica's CAFTA referendum will decide the future direction of macroeconomic policy.
Costa Rica's real estate boom continues. Supply will explode, but the country will be able to absorb it thanks to continued popularity, experts say.
Venezuela is now among the least-competitive tourism markets in Latin America.
US baby boomers and European investors are helping spur the market. But growth and prices are slowing down.
CAFTA faces 2007 with the likely implementation in two more countries and the start of free trade talks with the European Union.
Panama and CAFTA are most globalized in Latin America, Brazil and Mercosur the least, according to the 2006 Latin American Globalization Index.
Costa Rica's economic outlook is bright, thanks to an attractive environment for business, a new pro-trade government and a planned free trade agreement with the United States.
As the U.S. Congress approves CAFTA, U.S. trade with the pact's countries - already up - is expected to increase substantially. Likewise, the CAFTAeconomies should expand as a result.
HP, the market leader in Latin American PC sales, is growing strongly and set for further expansion thanks to strong local economies, free trade and a successful strategy.
Scotiabank is growing strongly in Latin America thanks to both acquisitions and organic growth. And it expects further growth in the future as well.
With the expected victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico next year, Latin America will take another turn to the left.
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.
