All Entries Tagged With: "Trade"
Waiting For Recovery
Latin American ports are ready and willing, but when will international trade pick up?
Central America’s Tug of War
MANAGUA — A look of frustration crossed the face of transport manager Daniel Montero as he hung up the telephone. More cancellations of trips from Costa Rica through Nicaragua into Honduras on the luxury buses run by Tica Bus, explained Montero, the transportation company’s general manager.
“They tell us the wait to cross the border is [...]
No Consensus On the Washington Consensus pt. 1
Greater fiscal control, including the accumulation of foreign reserves, and exchange rate flexibility have given some countries the ability to cushion the negative impact of the worst economic crisis since 1930.
No Consensus On the Washington Consensus pt. 2
Today, just as faith in deregulated markets has evaporated in the nightmare on Wall Street, so too is the long reign of market fundamentalism ending in the development arena.
The China Syndrome
Chinese financial authorities have carped about the dollar’s role as the sole world reserve currency, most recently at the G8 meeting of industrialized nations in L’Aguila, Italy. The world will rely on the greenback for international transactions for the foreseeable future. But China is already testing the waters in Latin America, where the country has [...]
Trial by Logistics
Market and Price Volatility Test Global Freight Carriers
Trade Notes
Development funds could become crucial to a region dependent on highly volatile sectors, such as tourism and sugar production, which are being battered by the global economic crisis.
Frail State, Frayed Relations: Mexico, the United States and the Drug Wars
In 2005, when almost 1,000 people were killed in the rising narcotics violence in Mexico, most people dismissed comparisons with the bloodshed Colombia had experienced in prior years. But by 2008, when 6,000 people died in gangland-style slayings, gruesome torture-killings and full-scale massacres, the violence had crept into the public consciousness and Mexicans began referring to the carnage as simply “war.”
Ahead of the Summit: The Hemisphere’s Incredible Shrinking Trade Agenda
If it weren’t for trade, there really wouldn’t be anything for North American leaders to discuss with their counterparts from the South at high-level summits.
