Nobel Laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz, and investors George Soros and Kyle Bass weighed in on Argentina’s behalf in its struggle with hold out investors, and the International Capital Market Association hopes to ensure that there are no repeats of Argentina’s situation. 

Seven months after it launched its ambitious bid to have the lion’s share of Internet sales in Colombia, Cdiscount celebrates the results. 

After several years of exploration and growth, the Costa Rican robotics sector is set to leave its childhood and enter adulthood. 

Critics of the democratically elected government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner have compared her strategies for dealing with the vulture funds to those of the military government that invaded the Falkland Islands, but the CFK administration fires back that the holdouts are “mobsters;” some observers think the dispute should end up in the Hague, and

The Economic Climate Index fell to its lowest point since July 2009, when the region suffered the effects of the international economic crisis.  

At the Council of the Americas meeting held in Guatemala investment opportunities in that country were presented. In the forum presenters stressed the importance of the integration of Central America to facilitate trade, investment needs in infrastructure, connectivity and human capital.

The administration of President Luis Guillermo Solís has set an ambitious goal to create 217,000 jobs and integrate more workers into the formal sector during the next four years.  The business community, however, does not share the president’s enthusiasm. 

Guatemalan municipalities with higher rates of poverty are most likely to have had lower rates of public investment over the past five years. Guatemala also ranks among the ten most vulnerable countries to climate change worldwide. 

The trajectory of the Peruvian economy over the last decade has been impressive, based on imitating the Chilean experience.  And even though not all is well in the land of the Incas, it is still looking better than Chile. 

Signs of self-sustaining recovery in some advanced economies are offset by slowing growth in emerging markets.