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Economy & Business - February 2012 (ISSN 1741-7430)
PERU: Bank lending up 19% in 2011
Lending by commercial banks increased 18.7% in 2011. The big increase was in personal lending (23%) but most of this new business was secured: mortgage lending went up by 27%, after a 24% increase in 2010.
- Another sign of confidence
- What is going on in the labour market?
- A tale of two economies
- ARGENTINA: In denial
- CHILE: Better than expected December
- PARAGUAY: Preparing to cut
- URUGUAY: Fiscal deficit comes in at below 1% of GDP
- BOLIVIA: Double deficits as government ramps up spending
- COLOMBIA: An under-control boom
- ECUADOR: Banks expect credit growth to slow
- PERU: Bank lending up 19% in 2011
- VENEZUELA: Spraying economy with dollars
- Macroeconomic data and forecasts
- COSTA RICA: The fiscal deficits start to flash red
- CUBA: Slow start to the sugar harvest
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Steady
- EL SALVADOR: Trade deficit rises
- GUATEMALA: Tax reform launched
- HONDURAS: Electricity problems
- NICARAGUA: Brito project up in the air
- PANAMA: Inflation problems
- 2011 GDP Figures
- MINING: Panama demonstrators win a round
- ENERGY: Mining company to build Chile’s biggest wind farm
- OIL: The pros and cons of Pemex becoming a major oil refiner
- AGRIBUSINESS: Drought hits Brazilian harvest
- TOURISM: South America becomes a market
- DEBT: Tapping China