Of all the analyses of the regional economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, perhaps none is as sobering as the July 15, 2020, report by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). ...
Coffee consumption has a special resilience. It has not increased much in recent years, but shelf-stable and popular, it did not decrease during the pandemic either. “While consumption has dropped due to the closures of ...
The World Bank just released its June Global Economic Outlook, which shows that Latin America will be the hardest-hit region in the world after the Eurozone. The Bank estimates a 7.2% fall on the region´s ...
A detailed analysis of the global progression of the pandemic, and of government’s responses, prepared by the global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm, Albright Stonebridge Group. Key Takeaways According to PAHO, it is possible that ...
Paraguay, Guatemala and Chile are the top three countries in Latin Trade’s most recent Tax Index. The index ranks 17 Latin American countries’ business taxes by number of payments, tax rate, number of hours to ...
Latin America will face an unprecedented fall in remittances this year, according to a World Bank report launched today. The expected 19.3% reduction will be greater than the 12.3% drop during the global financial crisis ...
The World Bank’s semiannual report on Latin America and the Caribbean. Launched today! How should Latin America respond to the health and the economic crisis in 2020? Should it maintain or implement general or targeted ...
On February 26, the first case of Coronavirus in Latin America was confirmed in Brazil, in a 61-year-old patient who had traveled to Italy. What is next? War! “For several weeks, countries in the Americas ...
Multilatinas in general saw a positive end of 2017, as revenues grew on average 8 percent in the fourth-quarter, compared with the same period last year, Latin Trade’s most recent Multilatina Index shows. Leading the ...
Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, is increasingly at the core of every major business around the world. Just this week, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset owner, released a letter to S&P 500 ...