Tag: Latam

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:53 UTC

  Latam should turn to Korea for trade and investment, suggests IDB

  

  A new study released by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) argues that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) should turn their attention to Korea, a fast-growing economy that offers numerous opportunities for bilateral trade and investment.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 08:35 UTC

  In Uruguay we have learnt to bury the old economic paradigms, says Mujica

  

  Uruguay’s strategy is to attract foreign private investors and offer the necessary guarantees to develop their business, said President Jose Mujica in a brief summary of his ten day European visit of four countries and the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 15:16 UTC

  The Economist: Latin American universities far from excellence in higher education

  

  The Economist has an interesting article, and comments, on the quality of higher education in Latin America based on the latest ratings from UK, US and Chinese education consultancies.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 18:57 UTC

  Beware of self-complacency Iglesias tells Latin American leaders

  

  The Ibero-American summit scheduled for October 28/29 in Paraguay will be ‘much dominated’ by current global events said Secretary General Enrique Iglesias who also warned on the risks of self-complacency in Latin America.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 19:08 UTC

  Close links between Social Assistance and presidential vote in Latin America

  

  A paper from the University of Vanderbilt Latin America Public Opinion Project confirms that conditional cash transfers (CCT) by governments from the region condition to a great extent the vote in favour of the incumbent candidate.

• Sunday, October 9th 2011 - 09:40 UTC

  IDB has 3bn dollars reserve fund in the event of a major global crisis

  

  The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, has a special reserve for emergency loans of 3 billion dollars “in the event of a major global financial crisis”, said Roberto Vellutini, IDB Vice-president following meetings in Paraguay.

• Saturday, October 8th 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  Latin America has highest rates of intentional homicide, says UNDOC report

  

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has released its first “Global Study on Homicide”, which shows that young men, particularly in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Central and Southern Africa, are at greatest risk of falling victim to intentional homicide.

• Friday, October 7th 2011 - 18:08 UTC

  IMF tells Latam to be prepared for a “triple shock”, in the worst of scenarios

  

  Latin American policy makers must be prepared to use interest rate cuts and consider fiscal measures to protect their economies in the event that the global economy stalls, the International Monetary Fund said.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 21:14 UTC

  Mercosur countries rank poorly in Forbes’ “Best Countries for Business”

  

  Mercosur full members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) rank poorly in the Forbes magazine annual Best Countries for Business, with the best listed, Chile and Peru, in positions 24 and 42, out of 134 countries surveyed worldwide.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 20:20 UTC

  Democratic and institutional qualities have dropped in Latam since 2009

  

  Latin America managed economic and social advances since the 2009 international crisis but not in democratic or institutional qualities for the common citizen, according to a report from the German foundation Konrad Adenauer, released this week in Mexico.