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Economy & Business - March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7430)
BRAZIL: Overachieving
The country's macroeconomic policymakers are revelling in a slew of
impressive statistics. Real annual GDP growth in 2007 was 5.4% and the finance
minister, Guido Mantega, expects growth this year to at least match that.
Industrial production is booming and despite the strength of the real against
the dollar, exports are holding up. Gilding the boom is the slowdown in
inflation.
- International capitalism flourishes... in Bolivia
- MEXICO: Car exports up, remittances steady
- BRAZIL: Overachieving
- ARGENTINA: Energy crisis looms
- CHILE: On the slide
- PARAGUAY: Government forecasts 6% to 8% growth
- URUGUAY: Doing rather well
- BOLIVIA: Inflation jumps
- COLOMBIA: Inflation worries
- ECUADOR: Tax revenues rise
- PERU: Inflation up
- VENEZUELA: Venezuela tinkers with inflation data
- COSTA RICA: Trade deficit increases
- CUBA: Government partly liberalises consumer electronics
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Government starts to recapitalise central bank
- EL SALVADOR: Breadmakers strike
- GUATEMALA: Hit by oil prices
- HONDURAS: Government complains about US ban on melons
- NICARAGUA: US still the biggest export market
- PANAMA: Trade with Cuba jumps tenfold
- OIL: Venezuela's production falls
- BRAZIL: CVRD pulls out of bid for Xstrata
- DEBT: Argentina's debt rises
- Going down
- Country forecasts