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Economy & Business - March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7430)
VENEZUELA: Venezuela tinkers with inflation data
On 3 March the central bank announced that it would no longer publish the
Caracas consumer price index. This is the longest running inflation index,
dating back to 1950, and suggests that the government is trying to muddle the
grim inflation figures by breaking the historic series.
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- 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