Last year, despite sluggish economic growth in China that has made worldwide headlines, funding by CDB and the China Export-Import Bank reached a near-record $29 billion.
WASHINGTON — The highly controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership could be an economic bonanza for Latin America and the Caribbean, even for countries that aren’t signatories to the 12-nation trade accord, say experts speaking at a recent panel.
WASHINGTON — Mitigating the expected ravages of climate change — let alone investing in sustainable infrastructure projects — won’t come cheap, say finance experts who calculate the cost at a staggering $110 billion a year for Latin America alone.
Latin America and international commerce will be the topic of the upcoming meeting of the Business Council of Latin America, slated for Aug. 13-14.
Puma Energy, the global integrated midstream and downstream energy company, has commissioned ‘The Changing Face of Latin America,” the latest study in a series of in-depth reports in collaboration with independent economic advisory firm Llewellyn Consulting.
WASHINGTON — After Dr. Jim Yong Kim graduated from college in 1993, his first trip to Washington was to join a noisy protest against the World Bank.
The government of Puerto Rico plans to spend $750,000 over a 12 month-period starting in June to open and run commercial offices in Colombia and Perú — and launch a magazine to document its actions — to drum up business in Latin America and establish the island as the bridge between that region, Europe and the United States.
As part of an initiative to promote exports of local products, Economic Development Bank President Joey Cancel-Planas announced Wednesday the signing of a partnership with Scotiabank Puerto Rico to spur international transactions.
Visa Inc. released its annual global Commercial Consumption Expenditure index, which estimates that commercial spending — including small, medium, large and governments — in Latin America and the Caribbean reached $7.8 trillion dollars in 2011.
Caribbean islands are aggressively courting new tourism markets as restrictive U.K. airline taxes and hard times in the United States keep thousands of potential British and American visitors at home.
Puerto Rico Telephone/Claro’s parent company, América Móvil, and wireless provider AT&T announced Monday they have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to explore ways of delivering enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and the rest of the world.
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