Tag: Latam

• Wednesday, May 4th 2011 - 21:17 UTC

  Latam FDI soars 40% in 2010, mainly natural resources and services

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean was the region with the strongest percentage increases as a recipient and source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), according to a report presented Wednesday in Mexico City by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2011 - 15:51 UTC

  Argentina promises to review ban on Indian imported pharmaceutical products

  

  Argentina has assured India of reviewing a ban on imported pharmaceutical products and announced the purchase of drugs worth 150-200 million US dollars from Indian firms, a statement said Wednesday.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 18:08 UTC

  Tax and investment protection agreements needed to boost India/Mercosur trade

  

  India emphasized the need to deepen trade and investment engagements with Latin America by expanding the existing PTA with Mercosur, during a business seminar in Montevideo, Uruguay. But he added that double tax and investment protections agreements are critical to expansion.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 17:55 UTC

  Boeing forecasts Latam air-carriers will require 2.180 airplanes in next 20 years

  

  Boeing forecasts that air carriers in Latin America will require 2,180 new airplanes worth approximately 210 billion US dollars over the next 20 years as air travel in the region out paces the world average.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  Food prices threaten Latam countries; urban poor need protection, says IDB

  

  Rising international food prices could trigger an acceleration of inflation in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean this year, highlighting the need for policies to protect the urban poor, according to a new study from the Inter American Development Ban (IDB).

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 05:20 UTC

  FAO estimates 2011 rice world production up 3%; Latam to rebound 9.2%

  

  Rice production is expected to rise to 480 million tons in 2011, which is 3% higher than a year earlier, due to improved weather conditions, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 00:59 UTC

  Spain main bank’s profits sustained by Latin America branches, mainly Brazil

  

  Spain’s biggest bank Santander reported first-quarter profit declined 5% as lower earnings at home offset gains in Latin America. Net income fell to 2.11 billion Euros from 2.22 billion Euros a year earlier, the Spanish bank said in a filing Friday.

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 10:17 UTC

  CELAC has not been created to exclude the US or Spain, says Iglesias

  

  The head of the Ibero-American Secretariat Enrique Iglesias denied that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, to be created next July pretends to take distance from the United States or Spain.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina among top users of social network Twitter

  

  Three Latin American countries figure among the ten top users of social network Tiwtter according to a release from comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, based on the comScore Media Metris service.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 21:42 UTC

  Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop small-scale nuclear reactors

  

  Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop a small-scale nuclear reactor over the next three years, even when last month‘s disaster in Japan prompted countries such as Germany and Brazil to reconsider projects.